Hello it's me Mahoney! Yes I've been around here for a while now but I never posted an introduciton when I first arrived, so I am going to do it now if that's ok, just so that you can know a bit more about me
I have always had a keen interest in magic but I always felt restricted in being able to learn what I called 'proper' magic. By porper magic I meant magic of a professional standard. I got lots of tricks for christmas and stuff as a child but I was never satisfied that the quality was up to scratch. One Christmas, not too long ago actually, I got Nicolas Einhorn's Practical Encyclopedia of Magic (I must ahve been 15 or 16 or something). This to me was 'proper' magic, and I spent lots of time learning things from the book but I put it away for a few years and forgot about it. It wasn't till about March or April 2005 that I found it again. "Oh yeah this was a great book" I thought, so I went though it again, going through the card section which I had previously, only skimmed over, and this time studied it properly.
I then had a bright idea
Maybe there were some magic shops online! Yes there were! And there were online magic communities to help me out too (Talk Magic woo!). So over the past year I have thrown myself into magic and I have been enjoying reading about it, learning it and performing it very much indeed.
Magic is awesome!
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Without the interenet it is very hard to get into magic. The internet has opened magic up as a possibility to many more people. Sure, some of this is for the worse, but I am very grateful. Of course, I only wish I had started earlier on. I should have joined a magic club.
