Article in the New York Times about how some professional magicians are coming around to seeing Uri Geller as one of their own. (It doesn't sound like the predominant opinion: certainly, The Amazing Randi never came around to that view.)
"Wait a minute," some magicians are saying. "Isn't he just doing what we do? Pretending to be able to do magical stuff? Isn't this how magicians started? What if...what if Geller is just better at hoodwinking people? Maybe he's just carrying on the act full time!"
A simple little trick, bending a spoon, something most magicians can do. But Geller made people believe it was "magic."
Geller, for his part, has started to be a little more "wink, wink, nod, nod" about his supposed powers.
I love this sort of turnaround, a paradigm shift that make you completely turn your opinion in the opposite direction.
In a book, it would be a great plot twist.
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