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   "slider"  wrote in message   
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   > And as Dali has said:   
   > This planet has only one shortage and that is the true outrageous.   
   >   
   > ### - except of course we know that blaine is only 'pretending' :)   
      
   Aren't we all?   
   Some do it just better then others.   
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   > > ### - i think most 'theatrical' critics were fairly impressed with him   
   and   
   > > his larger-than-life performances.   
   >   
   > At the beginning.   
   > With his last cageproject fasting for 44 days   
   > he had more negatieve then positive reactions.   
   >   
   > ### - (you snipped the bit that agreed with this?:)   
      
   What can I say, I suck obviously as an editor.   
      
      
   >   
   > Not everything he does is an illusion or a trick.   
   >   
   > ### - the 'effect' he has on (susceptible) people isn't an illusion...   
   they are   
   > stunned into a bafflement where they become (like anyone would) more   
   > pliable/easier to manipulate, they have suddenly become very 'un-sure'   
   about   
   > everything they took for granted only a moment before... in-truth they   
   have   
   > (unwittingly) entered into an altered state over which they have no   
   control...   
   > it is also true to say that they are being controlled...   
      
   The last sentence... Yes....   
   The controlled uncontrolled.   
   And it just might be that someone is wondering   
   what is going on?  And can I do the same to me myself?   
      
   > In short his best trick is to make people see a trick when none is there."   
   >   
   > ### - his art is to create doubt in people is all... suddenly they are not   
   so sure   
   > about things and thus they don't know what to believe... so for a moment   
   what   
   > he 'says' becomes reality to his audience because he leads them into that   
   reality   
   > - but what is he really doing if not just getting people lost in an   
   unfamiliar place,   
   > lol and then he 'leaves' them there!! :)   
      
   Like any artist does.   
   We are no guides.   
   We are just unlicened pilots   
   who are offering rides into the unknown.   
      
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   > i.e. i'd call that... 'taking advantage' :)   
      
   May be it is. May be it is called giving advantage.   
      
   > Greet the master of perception. He had you too.   
   >   
   > ### - nah he didn't... i deliberately didn't watch it heh heh :)   
      
   Clever you... and I see you giggling.   
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   > I also find it very funny that you don't see David as spiritual.   
   > Because I very much do.   
   > It is a feeling you know.   
   >   
   > ### - don't want to burst your bubble or anything, but i think he doesn't   
   > really know what he's doing... i.e. he's just playing along with it all   
   because   
   > he's an entertainer, and his novel style/approach (street tricks on the   
   public)   
   > made him rich...   
      
   Can very well be Slider. How would I really know.   
   I am only talking about the true color shining through.   
   And if it comes to that I am bubblerella in her invincible bubble.   
      
      
   >   
   > now if later he looks more deeply into why people's sense of reality can   
   > alter like that, then he might just gain an insight into how his 'own'   
   sense of   
   > reality functions, see what a total idiot he was, and actually advance   
   himself   
   > to being something a bit better than a mere entertainer & popular clown :)   
      
   He is just 30 years old. Have patience. :)   
   And a smile for all the clowns trying to entertain you.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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