Though the hint of charlatanry in the Frenchman's methods had not escaped Arthur Burdon's shrewd eyes, the audacious sureness of his hand had excited his enthusiasm.
In fact, the art of tendering the lips for these amatory salutes follows the principles laid down in treatises on legerdemain for performing the trick called Forcing a Card.
事实上,为这些爱意致意献上嘴唇的艺术遵循了有关骗术的论文中规定的原则,这些原则用于执行称为 Forcing a Card 的把戏。
But instead of doing so in a way that helps him, the Joker has no intention of constructive transformation, he only seeks to destroy, thereby accessing the infantile version of the Shadow Magician called the Trickster.
" Great God! If a man like that at a time when misfortune ought to summon him sternly to his duty will sink to charlatanism, what is one to expect from the rest of the human species" ?