From amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU Tue Mar 28 23:00:30 GMT 1995 Article: 18568 of rec.juggling Path: hal.COM!olivea!rahul.net!a2i!news.clark.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!news.Stanford.EDU!Xenon.Stanford.EDU!amorgan From: amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Alan Morgan) Newsgroups: rec.juggling Subject: Magnus Nicholls Date: 26 Mar 1995 22:23:47 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3l4phj$b27@Radon.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: xenon.stanford.edu Ah, Magnus Nicholls. Probably the best juggler no one has ever heard of. Neil Stammer told me about him one time and said that he had had some sort of *horrible* feud with Rastelli (Mangus, not Neil) over stolen material (Rastelli being the Michael Moschen of his day) or possibly a woman, and pretty much destroyed his own career over it. Pity really, if the rumors are true the guy was a serious stud. I saw a claim that he performed 10 balls regularly and 11 balls (!!!) a few times. He also worked a lot with fire (was he the first to juggling flaming sticks/ torches?) and nearly burned down one theatre where he was working (supposedly he refused to leave the flaming building until he finished his act). I hadn't heard about the "pact with Satan" bit before, but it sounds like he made a pretty good deal! I'd certainly sell my soul for that sort of skill (okay, I wouldn't *really*. I'd sell boppo's though). Alan ---- .sig accidently selling its soul to Santa