The Last Magic Show

The last ever recorded conjuring trick was performed in 3607 by the 62 year old Italian born stage magician Eric Sabatini.

Sabatini had had a hard time trying to impress his 35th Century audience with his illusions because most of them, through technological means could easily perform genuine acts of levitation and invisibility; pass matter through matter, read minds telepathically and transform objects into other objects.

And, by comparison with their genuine abilities, Sabatini’s conjuring looked like a child’s game.

Even sawing a woman in half failed to impress them since, with X-ray vision, they could clearly see how the trick was done.

But then, in a last ditch attempt to make his audience gasp, Sabatini got out an old piece of apparatus that he had found in a junk shop; something from a bygone era before Rational
Scepticism replaced religion and superstition.

It was called a Ouija Board and he invited six of his Audience members to come on stage and take part in an experiment to contact the Spirits of the dead.

Of course, like all good Rational Sceptics, they scoffed at first but then, once they felt their hands seemingly guided over the board by some strange, unseen power, Sabatini began to see amazement in their eyes; the kind of amazement that had not lit up anyone’s eyes for centuries.

“Is it real magic?”, he heard one of the participants ask, as naively as a child, “I mean really real magic?”

“How ironic”, thought Sabatini at that moment, remembering what he had learned about how old time magicians had tried their best to promote the rational sceptical cause, debunking phony mediums, astrologers and faith healers, “And now the only magic trick left is the age old human desire to believe in real magic”.

“Yes”, he said, crossing the fingers of his white conjurors gloves behind his tail coat,
“It is real magic”.