:: Marc Salem

If you're remotely familiar with the fine art of mentalism, then you know Marc Salem. Currently appearing in merry 'ol England, the Telegraph does a great job at capturing the essence of Marc..

He dramatises the unusual powers of the mind, mixing the slick, hustling showmanship of the legendary Amazing Kreskin with a dose of the heavier, more contemporary hanky-panky of Derren Brown, where the possibility of something genuinely spiritual and truly strange wafts elusively through the proceedings.

He stops his own pulse, he moves the hands on a watch forward an hour, he knows where people have been on holiday; not even four layers of tape sticking coins to his eyes can stop him knowing the serial number on a banknote he's never seen before. It's what he calls "paying attention" to abilities most people have lost, or never had.

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