At the end of January, there is another internationally celebrated day: International Day of the Magicians. On that day in 1934, Giovanni Bosco died.
He was a priest who founded an order called Salesian Sisters and published a book about his educational methods. His work involved helping poor children learn how to read and write by teaching them songs (with lyrics such as “come on, teacher, teach me how to write”). It was also important for him to use magic tricks as part of his lessons on how words can be rearranged or combined into different phrases in order to make new meanings from existing ones.
The International Day of the Magicians isn’t just about celebrating those who perform magic tricks; it’s also about celebrating those who use language itself as a kind of trickery—the same way that magicians do when they manipulate their audiences’ attention through sleight-of-hand gestures so they can pull off their illusions without being caught in any way whatsoever!
