Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts:
The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary.
The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back.
That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part that we Liverpool supporters call "The El Nino moment"."
The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary.
The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back.
That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part that we Liverpool supporters call "The El Nino moment"."
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There is also another, more important moment called the Guard of Honour... auld lang syne
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