{"id":13075,"date":"2010-06-02T20:11:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T03:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/06\/02\/13075.html"},"modified":"2010-06-02T20:11:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T03:11:32","slug":"magic-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/06\/02\/magic-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic to do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday, Kavi was blowing bubbles in a glass of water, using a straw.<\/p>\n

This morning, she again had a glass of water and a straw. I came over to the table, and she pointed at a nickel sitting on the table.<\/p>\n

She said: “I'll blow bubbles, and you do magic.”<\/p>\n

I picked up the nickel and did a French drop<\/a>. (I learned that as a kid, from an excellent book called Sneaky Feats<\/cite>.) But Kavi wasn't looking when I did the trick. I showed her my empty hand, but she hadn't seen the first part of the trick so she wasn't surprised that my hand was empty. I showed her the nickel in my other hand, and she said, “You didn't do magic!”<\/p>\n

So then I did it again while she was watching, and plucked the nickel from her ear, and all was well.<\/p>\n

But later in the day, she kept putting the nickel in various places. She would hide it in a box (while I was watching), and then ask me to pull it from her ear. I tried taking it out of the box, but she would tell me it had to stay there.<\/p>\n

I was puzzled by this at first; how could I pull the coin out of her ear if it was hidden in a box? But eventually I realized that as far as she was concerned, since I really was pulling it out of her ear, there was no need for me to take it out of the box first.<\/p>\n

I finally went off to another room to get another nickel, but by the time I came back, she was off for a nap, and that was the last of the day's magic.<\/p>\n

(I suspect Ben was the one who showed her the nickel-from-ear trick.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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