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When I was your age, Harry Houdini
played here and I met him backstage.
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And he made a gesture
like this.
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And all of a sudden
this was in his hand.
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And he said to me:
"This is a magic ticket."
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"I got it from an Indian magician,
who got it from a Tibetan magician."
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"It is a passport to another world.
It was mine."
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"And now it is yours."
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And now it is yours.
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- What does it do, Nick?
- I never had the courage to find out.
:16:51
I have always wanted to try,
but I was afraid it would not work.
:16:57
At your age Houdini was like a god
to me. What if he was faking?
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And then again...
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- What if it did work?
- What if it did?
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Houdini said something else.
He said:
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"This ticket has a mind of its own.
It does what it wants to do."
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That always made me edgy.
:17:33
I guess there is only one way
to find out then. Right?
:17:43
Please retain your stub, sir.
:17:50
- Shall we see if Slater wins?
- Jack Slater cannot lose.
:17:55
Never has, never will.