The Overlap Between Magic and Story

Aaron Carroll: Storytellers entertain by setting up deception and then with revelation Aaron you use that word twice. When I think of unanswered questions as a tool, I'm always thinking of the revelation that is going to come at the end,. This is how it was done. The magician typically won't show us that they were using a trick knife with a collapsible blade but in knives out famously we are told about a trick knife in the first act and we are shown the trick knife at the very end of the show. There's a way in which mysteries and the structure of a mystery is a fantasy. You are selling people on the idea that there are easy answers to complex problems, that