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--- misc:invisible_touch [2017/06/28 16:58] – external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ misc:invisible_touch [2018/08/13 19:33] (current) – Added Thurston reference. stephenminch
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 ====== Invisible Touch ======
-The effect of causing an eerie sensation of being lightly touched, using a length of invisible thread, is said to be the idea of Socrate. Lior Manor is reported to be the first to apply Finn Jon's invisible-thread loops for this task. These attributions are reported in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/20378/M+U+M/165|M-U-M]]//, Vol. 98 No. 2, July 2008, p. 73, in a review of //Loops//, DVDs by Finn Jon and Yigal Mesika.
+Finn Jon and Yigal Mesika credit the effect of causing an eerie sensation of being lightly touched, using a length of invisible thread, to Philippe Socrate. They claim that Lior Manor was the first to apply Finn Jon's invisible-thread loops for this task. These attributions are reported in the DVD, //Loops//, Vol. 1, 2007, by Finn Jon and Yigal Mesika.
+The effect goes back much further, however. Howard Savage included the idea in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/38436/The+Sphinx/20|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 30 No. 1, Mar. 1931, p. 20. Savage used wax to attach a human hair to his thumb, allowing him to lightly touch his participant without seeming to do so.
+In a related early stunt, Howard Thurston (1869-1936) used a length of thread, strung across the stage, to catch the hair of an audience volunteer and make it stand on end, apparently in comic freight; see Lesley P. Guest in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/14971/M+U+M/454|M-U-M]]//, Vol. 43 No. 11, Apr. 1954, p. 454; and Milbourne Christopher's //[[https://askalexander.org/display/9900/The+Illustrated+History+of+Magic/244|Illustrated History of Magic]]//, 1973, p. 225.
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