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T’ang and Sung China with Peter Bol

Conversations in World History

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The Confusion Magic

Confusion magic is about teaching students that ritual is part of daily experience and is absolutely essential to it, even if they can't see it. So do two things. One is ask two students. Come up. One on each side of the room. And I tell one to walk to the other stick out their hand and say hello. That's all. But just as I'm about to do that, I asked somebody in the bathroom, by the way, could you close the door. The person goes and closes the door and we go ahead. It's a bit slight of hand. People don't notice asking to close the door, but they're looking at these two people up in

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