Last week I was shuffling down the street, trying my best to beat a hangover that was holding on for dear life. It was two in the afternoon, yet the cobwebs in my mind were refusing their grip on my sanity. Which is just as well, because what happened next surely destroyed plenty of my neural connections. I passed by this bookstore, and noticed this guy inside beckoning me to come in. Naturally, I complied.

This guy was doing some of the most incredible magic I’ve ever seen. When I walked in he was doing these wicked card tricks. He’d ask somebody to pick a card, and then have them show their friends, like normal. Only he’d have them put the card back in the deck, but then the card would show up in their sock or their wallet or something.

Then he switched into the psychic part of his routine, and this is where I could hear my brain sizzling. He would stare at somebody, read their mind, and then stare at somebody else, and download the first persons information into the second person. Then the second person, who didn’t know the first person, would start telling everybody secrets about the first person that even their best friends didn’t know.

After that, he settled back down into doing regular illusion type magic. Sleight of hand tricks, making stuff vanish, and they reappear in other places. One trick he did that I’m still trying to figure out is that he made everybody’s drink vanish. He would tell somebody to pick up their drink, and as soon as they put the glass other their mouths, the contents would be gone. He did this at least three different times with three different people.

I could only take so much of this before I had to go back outside. It was by far the most strangest magical experience I’ve ever come across in my short life. But just as I was about to walk down the street, I heard a voice behind me.

You must learn magic tricks! You must delve into the secret world of psychic tricks to uncover the mysteries of the unknown! They are depending on you! I wasn’t sure who “they” were, but that was enough to spook me for good. I ran out of there, and never came back.

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