THE Power OF Negative Thinking

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While they’re watching the money, you’ll know the trick is in the bag.

BY CHARLES PLATT

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Photograph by Garry McLeod

Magic tricks with audience participation often entail borrowing something and then transforming it, or making it disappear and reappear. Any magician should have a variety of devices to assist in these basic operations. The double-compartment bag described here can serve that purpose, and although it’s based on a design that’s hundreds of years old, I haven’t seen it widely sold, probably because it ...

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