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As ever, Chabon is a performing magician.
The job of a performing magician is, "after all, just tricks".
The book, he ponders – which is not so much an autobiography as a "semi autobiographical whimsy" – is loosely structured around a time in the 90s when he worked as a performing magician in a restaurant.
Slaight spent several years when he was young touring the prairies as a performing magician, and he has remained obsessed with stage magic.
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It was a private men's club, in one of the Old Town's back streets, that combined the functions of canteen, craft guild, and rehearsal hall for the performing magicians of Bohemia.
At one point Jun Kuribayashi is imprisoned inside the three mirrors, which the other dancers rotate around him as if they're performing a magician's trick.
"It's good, performing for magicians," Michael said.
Solar adsorption air conditioning performs a magician's trick, using only the heat of the sun to cool the indoor air, but so far it is not very affordable or adaptable to home use.
Again mixing live-action with computer animation, the story this time revolves around the bad wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria), who has been performing as a magician in modern-day Paris, kidnapping Smurfette (voiced by Katy Perry) as part of a plan to bring about "Smurf-A-Geddon".
The Conjurer, by Hieronymus Bosch, depicts a medieval magician performing for a small crowd, while pickpockets steal the spectators' belongings.
It was, said one contemporary, like watching "a magician, performing his incantations in public".
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