08 MAGIC WORDS • Demonstration of stagecraft -- E.J. Clery, The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800 (1999) • Disappearing act "[P]ulling some sort of disappearing trick. Now you see it, now you don't." -- Daniel M. Hausman, Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy (1996) "[O]ne can only speak of the film as a conjurer's 'now you see it, now you don't' disappearance act." -- Thomas Elsaesser, Weimar Cinema and Af ter: Germany's Historical Imaginary (2000) "The Pleistocene extinction is a vanishing trick that falls under the heading, 'Now you see them, now you don't,' for at the time human beings were numerous all over the earth." -- Charles Panati, The Browser's Book of Endings: The End of Practically Everything and Everybody (1989) • Ebb and flow -- Matthew Fox, The Way of Conflict (2004) • Elusive, slippery -- Jerome D. Levin, Theories of the Self (1992) -- Ruth Robbins, Pater to Forster, 1873-1924 (200 ) • Evanescent -- Edward Bliss Jr., Writing News for Broadcast (1994) • Fleeting image -- Charles Hayes, Tripping (2000) • Flick, flicker "[A] flickering, trompe-l'oeil quality: Now you see it, now you don't." -- Lance Morror, Evil: An Investigation (200 ) "There's something about the crimson flash of a snake's forked tongue or the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't flicker of a lizard's nictitating membrane, the clear film that acts as a third eyelid, that gives most people the willies -- and thrills a select few." -- Osha Gray Davidson, Fire in the Turtle House (2001) "Then the electricity supply began to flicker -- now you see it now you don't." -- John Lawton, A Little White Death (1999) "[W]ith the flick of a switch -- now you see it, now you don't." -- Chris Lefteri, Glass (2004) "[H]is touches have a rather flickering appearance; now you see them, now you don't." -- Jacqueline A. Rankin, Body Language of the Abused Child (1999) • Fluctuating pattern -- Elaine Shimberg, Living With Tourette Syndrome (1995) • Game of appearance and reality -- Ian Stronach, Educational Research Undone (1995) • Ghostlike -- David Punter, The Gothic (2004) • Hide-and-seek game -- Rose Mary Dougherty, The Lived Experience of Group Spiritual Direction (200 )