"The profession of magician, isone of the most……" — William Bolitho
"The profession of magician, isone of the most perilous and arduous specialisations of the imagination. On the one handthere is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as themanufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics."
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William Bolitho
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