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An Anatomy of Magic
ILLUSION IS REAL, even if not actually truthful. Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie begins: “Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives ...
Peter M. Nardi is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College, a member of the Claremont Colleges. He has written several articles on magic and is the author of Doing Survey Research: A Guide to Quantitative Methods.