From bcohen@cs.buffalo.edu Tue Mar 28 09:00:29 GMT 1995 Article: 18548 of rec.juggling Path: hal.COM!decwrl!crl.dec.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu!bcohen From: bcohen@cs.buffalo.edu (Bram Cohen) Newsgroups: rec.juggling Subject: Re: Magnus Nicholls centennial Date: 26 Mar 1995 16:57:35 GMT Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Computer Science Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3l46dv$c9v@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu> References: <3l202j$n17@hijinks.hal.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagarin.cs.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: bcohen I saw some pictures of Magnus once - all dressed in black, protruding bones, and an extreme pallor. Very cool. There was an article in some local newspaper from I guess around 1910 which said that his show was 'unsuitable to women and children, who might be too sensitive for its heathenistic nature.' There was also an editorial condemning it as a direct channeling of the forces of Satan in the form of manipulation, and called for such performances to be banned, as the energies might be close enough to influence members of the audience. (Apparently the writer figured that good ol' Magnus was going to hell anyway, and might as well channel the devil all he wanted, so long as noone else was nearby.) I wish I knew what his routine consisted of. None of the things I read about him said anything specific, just debated its heretical nature. Apparently, noone could bring themselves to discuss it in print. If anybody knows anything more about it, please let me know. It would be a shame if one of the few great thematic juggling routines were lost in history. __ ___ ___ / \____ ############################ / \_/ \ \_ __ \ # Bram Cohen # / \_/ / \/ # bcohen@acsu.buffalo.edu # /\ ___/ # Just trying to be myself #