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It’s a kind of magic

August 21st, 2009 · Posted by Skuds in Life · No Comments · Life

I love magic tricks.  I also like to know how things are done.  I find that knowing how a particular trick is done does not impair my enjoyment of it at all, although in some cases it leads to a slightly different type of appreciation of a good trick. It is a bit like seeing a good spaceship crash or zombie decapitiation in a film – I know it is all CGI and special effects, I know it is not real, but I can still enjoy as part of the story while, on another level, I am evaluating the skill of the effects. All of which is a lead-in to this story in the Guardian.

Ostensibly it is about Spanish magicians getting upset because somebody is ‘doing a Penn & Teller’ and giving away their secrets, but it looks like an excuse to get a reference to the Doña Esther case into a story, which really deserves a story to itself – but maybe that is just my inquisitive mind…The Doña Esther case, which I had not heard of before, is summarised thus:

A stripper in Benidorm called Doña Esther, claiming to have invented a system by which up to 14 objects would appear from an intimate part of her body during her show, sued a rival, Doña Julia, after she had started performing the same trick.

I think we can all have a fairly good guess as to what the ‘intimate part of her body’ was, but what sort of objects was she pulling out?  Was it just the notoriously traditional ping pong balls?  Or was it more spectacularly impressive?   Footballs?  A lit candelabra?  A stepladder?   It would be nice to know, and I don’t think we are going to see her act as a guest spot on the Paul Daniels show any time soon, or even on Youtube.

That case went to court, where Ms Esther didn’t get any compensation, but.. what a day to be on jury service!

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