Magician has trick up sleeve (smunews?format=xml)
Summary: Trigg Watson Burrage, an SMU senior, talks about his love of doing
magic tricks.
By Nancy Churnin
The Dallas Morning News
As someone who bought into the world of Harry Potter, I don't expect to be
wowed by practitioners of magic in our Muggle world. After all, there's always
a trick, right? Something up the sleeve, in a hidden pocket, or an illusion in
the lighting. And yet, I was absolutely awed by Trigg Watson Burrage when he
came to The Dallas Morning News.
The 22-year-old Southern Methodist University senior, who goes by the stage
name Trigg Watson, tore up a copy of the Morning News right in front of me --
then handed it over whole and untouched. He had me hold a coin in my hand, and
when I opened my hand, it was a different coin.
"I love to take an idea and make it happen, like making a toy Slinky move by
itself or making juggling balls slow in midair," he told me. "Even when it
seems impossible, I bet there's a way."
Trigg is a smart, well-read and personable young man, a President's Scholar
with a full ride at SMU, ...
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