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Is that gift for Jannies or from them?

"I shall grant you two more illusions,”
Talawanda informed his audience.

"Can you escape from these handcuffs
of mine?” an eager man inquired as he held
up a pair of police regulation handcuffs.

Talawanda responded
as the audience grew silent
once more. "My friends, I
am afraid you are really
much more powerful than
you ever imagined . You are
truly magicians, because you
have succeeded in convincing
even yourselves that this
world is not an illusion.

"Today, you believe that
an illusion, such as those
handcuffs, is capable of
restricting you,”

"You see, for me, this
world, is like a dream; that
is the difference between you
and me.

"I never took this
illusion you call 'reality* as
seriously as you apparently
have.

"While you were busy
'facing reality,* I preferred to
fabricate my own.

"While you were busy
inventing 'interesting new
handicaps* to inflict upon
yourselves, I was watching
from another universe.

"This is why I am able
to have things come and go
as I please.”

As Talawanda finished his speech, the
pair of handcuffs that the man was holding,
floated out of his hands and up towards the
stage. The handcuffs stopped about ten feet
from the stage and hovered four feet off the
floor.

There they began to glow like burning
coal and grew brighter and brighter until
they shone like the noontime sun. Then
suddenly they were gone!

Totally vanished!