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 | Blaine has encased himself in ice for sixty-one hours, stood on a platform 22 inches in diameter and 109 feet high for two days and two nights, and buried himself in a plexiglass coffin for seven days, consuming only four tablespoons of water a day. |
| There are thus two David Blaines, as there are two sides of magic; one in continuity with modernity and sharing the root impulses that also drive mathematics and science, the other in some kind of opposition to the essentially rational conception of the world that is the result and progenitor of mathematical and scientific inquiry. |
| Only, Blaine has dispensed, in his challenges, with the normal trappings of magic altogether and thus with the element of irony that is necessary for Penn and Tellers act. |
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