Magic

I’m sure some of you know that I used to be a stage magician. Not a particularly brilliant one, it must be admitted, but I did get up in front of numerous audiences and did an actual act in which things dis-apparated and re-apparated and odd shiny objects floated through the air. (In fact, I once sliced Teresa Nielsen-Hayden in half with a Black & Decker saber saw. She claimed she survived because she wrote “STET” on her abdomen.)
I don’t do stage magic any longer, because I realized that I co...