A chance encounter with a traveling magician is said to have been the cause of Eisenheim’slifelong
A chance encounter with a traveling magician is said to have been the cause of Eisenheim’s lifelong passion for magic. The story goes that one day, returning from school, the boy saw a man in black sitting under a plane tree. The man called him over and lazily, indifferently, removed from the boy’s ear first one coin and then another, and then a third, coin after coin, a whole handful of coins, which suddenly turned into a bunch of red roses. From the roses the man in black drew out a white billiard ball, which turned into a wooden flute that suddenly vanished. One version of the story adds that the man himself then vanished, along with the plane tree.The Illusionist (2006) dir. Neil BurgerAdapted from the short story, Eisenheim the Illusionist, by Steven Millhauser -- source link
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