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Sleight of hand (also known as prestidigitation or legerdemain) is hand methods and finger techniques used by performing artists in many art forms to entertain or manipulate. It is closely associated with close-up magic, card cheating, card flourishing and stealing.
Because of its heavy use and practice by magicians, sleight of hand is often confused as a branch of magic, but is in reality a separate genre of entertainment, as many artists practice sleight of hand without the slightest interest in magic.
Sleight of hand pioneers with worldwide acclaim include Dan and Dave, Ricky Jay, David Blaine, David Copperfield, Yann Frisch, Dai Vernon and Tony Slydini.
The word sleight, meaning "the use of dexterity or cunning, especially so as to deceive", comes from the Old Norse. The phrase sleight of hand means "quick fingers" or "trickster fingers". Common synonyms from the latin alphabet include prestidigitation and legerdemain.Seneca the Younger, philosopher of the Silver Age of Latin literature, famously compared rhetoric techniques and illusionist techniques.
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All of my friends
Not the ones I've got
Everyone has run out hot and cold and hot
Monkey's got fire
Feathers on the top
Burning giant mandolin
Over the pigeon drop
Oldest game around
Newest trick in town
Sleight of hand
Oldest game around
Newest trick in town
Sleight of hand
The air is perfumed
Burning much too slow
Filling up the room
Stumbling like a rose
Standing on the street
Watching the time roll past
You can smell the love
And it's disappearing fast
Oldest game around
Newest trick in town
Sleight of hand
Oldest trick in town
Newest game around
Sleight of hand
It's a symphony of growls
A private collection of invisible howls
The oldest game around
A little sticky and totally sound
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Burning much too slow
Filling up the room
Stumbling like a rose
Oldest game around
Newest trick in town