title: Magic: Presenting the World's Greatest Magicians, Tricks, Illusions
author:  Peter Eldin 
description: Mike Caverney is "'one of the funniest magicians in America"' (Hollywood Reporter). He has performed all over the world, most recently on the Orient Express in Switzerland, at the World Congress of Magic in Japan, at the Sydney Arts Festival in Australia, and on television in Canada, Portugal, and England. He is a member of the exclusive Inner Magic Circle, which is based in London, and is a contributing editor to Magic - the Independent Magazine for Magicians. Mike Caveney is also a distinguished historian, lecturer, author, and publisher of books. He and his wife, magician Tina Lenert, live in Pasadena, California.
zlib_text: **The Collected Essays of Eugene Burger.**
  
  A CLASSROOM DISCUSSION
  
  2
  
  A NEW YEAR?
  
  5
  
  BEING "ME"
  
  6
  
  BETRAYING OUR INTENTIONS
  
  8
  
  BRIEF MEETINGS WITH GIFTS THAT LAST FOREVER
  
  9
  
  CAN YOU TELL ME THE BEST CARD TRICKS?
  
  111
  
  CHALLENGES
  
  133
  
  EDITING OUR SCRIPTS
  
  144
  
  FIVE SECRETS
  
  17
  
  GETTING REACQUAINTED
  
  18
  
  IMAGINATION, SOLITUDE AND CREATIVITY
  
  200
  
  IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES ALONG THE WAY
  
  22
  
  MAGICAL PRESENTATIONS
  
  233
  
  ON IMITATION
  
  25
  
  PERFORMING STUNTS & PERFORMING MAGIC
  
  277
  
  PLAYING WITH DEEP DOWN FEARS
  
  28
  
  REFLECTIONS
  
  300
  
  THE FIFTH WAY: LOST IN CYBERSPACE
  
  311
  
  THE LAST WORDS
  
  333
  
  THE THEORY AND ART OF MAGIC
  
  35
  
  1
  
  **A Classroom Discussion**
  
  by Eugene Burger and Larry Hass
  
  _Originally published in Linking Ring magazine_
  
   **Eugene Burger has created an enviable, world-wide reputation as a
  superlative close-up magician and** **lecturer on both the theory and
  performance of magic. His television appearances and lectures in England,**
  **Europe and Japan have generated enthusias