"Sleep paralysis and hypnopompic hallucinations..."
Greetings,
Well, this week, Thereminisation has taken toll! Been working on a few things, and gave a demonstration of the Theremin and magic at my old college - many new faces, many old, and all baffled, amazed and amused!
There was a great diversity of audience - and those who I would normally take to not get into magic really took to it - which is reassuring (Lucy, Rachel, Jack, Ellie & co. - hope you enjoyed it ;-) ). It was great to meet all of these people, and all whom I met were great people. To all those who were 'put under' - don't worry, I've been doing this a while ;-)
Well, looking to the magic/music concert next Sunday, I'm commencing preparation with the other player - hopefully will be a good show!
Ah well - off to carry on watching the Skeptics Society 2005 conference DVD (which is where the title of this post comes from ;-D ). I was reminded in this DVD (Michael Shermer didn't know who it was, suprisingly) of a quote from Sidney Morgenbesser:
During a lecture the Oxford linguistic philosopher J.L. Austin made the claim that although a double negative in English implies a positive meaning, there is no language in which a double positive implies a negative. To which Morgenbesser responded, "Yeah, yeah." (Some have it quoted as "Yeah, right." See litotes for the actual linguistic status of this hypothesis.)
Have fun.
MxC
Well, this week, Thereminisation has taken toll! Been working on a few things, and gave a demonstration of the Theremin and magic at my old college - many new faces, many old, and all baffled, amazed and amused!
There was a great diversity of audience - and those who I would normally take to not get into magic really took to it - which is reassuring (Lucy, Rachel, Jack, Ellie & co. - hope you enjoyed it ;-) ). It was great to meet all of these people, and all whom I met were great people. To all those who were 'put under' - don't worry, I've been doing this a while ;-)
Well, looking to the magic/music concert next Sunday, I'm commencing preparation with the other player - hopefully will be a good show!
Ah well - off to carry on watching the Skeptics Society 2005 conference DVD (which is where the title of this post comes from ;-D ). I was reminded in this DVD (Michael Shermer didn't know who it was, suprisingly) of a quote from Sidney Morgenbesser:
During a lecture the Oxford linguistic philosopher J.L. Austin made the claim that although a double negative in English implies a positive meaning, there is no language in which a double positive implies a negative. To which Morgenbesser responded, "Yeah, yeah." (Some have it quoted as "Yeah, right." See litotes for the actual linguistic status of this hypothesis.)
Have fun.
MxC
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