Notebook 46 Pg 15

notes

• Debussy Jardin sous le puie
• Norfolk Coast and Danny Baker are fast becoming what Spanish Wheatfields were to Maximus Decimus
• 2 min grass
• Quite a big secret:'Knowing that non-magicians will overlook the things that don't seem so thrilling, and thus magicians can fool them with those things'.   Nathaniel Schiffman
• 'The non Magician will never learn how the tricks are really done because when they see the real secrets that are used they aren't impressed by them. They think they're not finding out anything of importance, and so they believ the secrets are too well guarded to be discovered. Not true.'  Nathaniel Schiffman

commentary

Debussy Jardin sous le pluie
Oh my. Do you remember how I played this to you on that warm afternoon in the Spring of 1907? You recall how we found that dusty old Steinway hidden behind the portraits of Grand mama and her water spaniels, how we laughed and laughed. You do remember don't you? Surely you do? We spent weeks exploring the attics in Uncle Tom's house. Oh happy days.

Norfolk Coast and Danny Baker are fast becoming what Spanish Wheat fields were to Maximus Decimus
I wrote this when I was wifeless, jobless and very nearly homeless in NYC and the thought of listening to Danny's show and visiting the North Norfolk coast were things that kept me going in the dark hours. Maximus Decimus is the part Russell Crowe plays in the eponymous Gladiator

2 min grass
I can't believe that having invented this godsend to the horticultural world I have now forgotten how I did it.

Quite a big secret: Knowing that non-magicians will overlook the things that don't seem so thrilling, and thus magicians can fool them with those things. Nathaniel Schffman

The non Magician will never learn how the tricks are really done because when they see the real secrets that are used they aren't impressed by them. They think they're not finding out anything of importance, and so they believ the secrets are too well guarded to be discovered. Not true.
Nathaniel Schiffman
Both these quotes are from an excellent book called Abracadabra which is a really cracking read.