War Dances by Sherman Alexie

Author:Sherman Alexie [Alexie, Sherman]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781480457225
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

2.

On TV, Uri Geller was bending spoons

With just his mind. “Wow,” I said. “That’s so cool.”

Then, three days later, as I browsed through Rick’s

Pawn Shop, I picked up a book of magic tricks

And learned how to bend spoons almost as well.

I called my act URI GELLER IS GOING TO HELL.

3.

At Expo ’74, in Spokane, I saw my first invisible dog on a leash. A hilarious and agile Chinese man was selling them. “My dog is fast,” he said. And his little pet, in its leash and harness, dragged him across the grass. I thought it was real magic. I didn’t know it was just an illusion. I didn’t know that thick and flexible wires had been threaded through the leash and harness and then shaped to look like a dog—an invisible dog. In fact, I didn’t discover the truth until two years later at our tribe’s powwow, when a felonious-looking white man tried to sell me an invisible dog with a broken leash. Without a taut leash, that invisible dog didn’t move or dance in its harness. The magic was gone. I was an emotional kid, so I started to cry, and the felonious dude said, “Shit, kid, take it, I found it in the garbage anyway.”

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