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The magician has a volunteer "pick a card, any card"
from a deck, and with a flourish, show the card: "Is
this your card?" -- it is not the card, and the magician
tells the volunteer, "here, hold it for a second", handing
them the card and then picking card after card from
the deck, none of which is the card the volunteer picked.
The magician says, "will you look at that first card
again?" -- whereupon the volunteer finds it has magically
become his card. Or, a chicken is placed in a cage,
the cage is covered with a cloth, which is immediately
whisked from the cage, and the chicken has become an
eagle. A bowl of fire may become a rabbit, a broom may
be transformed into a beautiful woman. Transformations
change one thing into another. Or, into several others.
(wikipedia)
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