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“I'm writing a book on magic��, I explain, and I'm asked, “Real magic?�� By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers. “No��, I answer: “Conjuring tricks, not real magic��. Real magic, in other words, refers to the magic that is not real, while the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not real magic.”
― Lee Siegel, Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India

“I could see no stars through the crude hot haze of the truculent night. It always to me, at night in Calcutta, that the day has suffered a humiliating defeat. The light has surrendered and publicly admitted its impotence.”
― Lee A. Siegel, Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India

“When Mohammad Shah spoke, his face usually took on the expression of someone who has just taken a bite out of a lemon. At other times, in his more mellow moments, it was the expression of someone who had just stepped in shit.”
― Lee A. Siegel, Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India