:: Marc Salem Revisited

Marc Salem is making quite an impression on the jolly 'ol English. So much so that Simon Fanshawe has written an in-depth article, " I Know What You're Thinking", for, of all things, Financial Times.com . Read it - Very good stuff..

My own relationship with audiences has led me to develop something of a fascination with these performers. One of my favourites and one of the best, though not the best known, is the American Marc Salem, who has recently been performing in London.

So when I meet him in the lobby of a London hotel, it is with childish delight that I ask him to show me a trick. Salem takes my pad and writes something on the first page and then something on the next. He hands it back to me. He has written four numbers - one, two, three, four. "Choose a number from one to four". I choose three. "Turn over the page". It says "geniuses always choose three". I feel like I am now six years old and waiting for the birthday cake to arrive. Or I've just re-read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Speckled Band for the umpteenth time.

And then I ask him how he did it....

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