🐰 What would Flick say?
🐰 A magician is more than their tricks. There's a code: keep the secret, practise first, never do the same trick twice for the same people, never make a helper look silly, and never say it's real. What would Flick do?
Flick is getting the questions ready…
The answers, and why
Your friend asks how your trick works. What does a magician do? Keep the secret, and offer another trick. "I will keep the secret." Once they know, the surprise is gone for ever.
You learned a trick ten minutes ago. Is it time to show everybody? Practise first, until it's boring. Practise until it's boring for you. That's when it becomes amazing for them.
Your audience says: do it again! What do you do? Do a different trick. "I will not do the same trick twice for the same people." The second time, they know where to look.
Your helper drops the card. What do you say? That was my fault! Thank you for helping. "I will never make a helper look silly." The helper is never the joke.
Somebody asks: is your magic real? It's a trick: a performance, like juggling. "I will not say my magic is real." Saying it is turns a lovely trick into a fib.
A trick goes wrong in front of everybody. What's your out? A joke, a second ending, or the next trick. And if it goes wrong? Every magician has days like that. Here's your way out.
Flick says a trick without words is… Just a thing that happened. Now the words. A trick without words is just a thing that happened.
You performed your trick for somebody! What does Flick say? That's what makes you a magician. You performed it! That's the bit that makes you a magician. Who's next?