"Isn't it a howl?" said Wilbur. "Isn't it the whole of life?--society, love, politics--everything! You pretend you can do the impossible: no elastics, no threads, no gimmicks as they call them, no confederate, no rigged-up table--the spectators can stand all around you! And nobody at all can do it! It used to cost two hundred dollars to learn to perform a miracle, but now it's only a dollar fifty. You can panic your friends, you can get your girl, you can make yourself a big reputation. All you've got to do is to have a rubber canary."
"Glimpses of Wilbur Flick"
Memoirs of Hecate County
Edmund Wilson
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