The first time I went to Disneyland, at age 8, someone in the back of our boat on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride had a flashlight. He or she was using it to reveal the wires and other darkness-hidden mechanisms for making the illusions work. At first my sisters and I called out, quite primly, "Please put the flashlight away, you're spoiling the magic." The flashlight-wielder ignored us. And we discovered that having the magic spoiled was fascinating in its own way. Pretty soon we were eagerly calling out, "Shine it over there! How are they doing
that?"
If you don't want the magic spoiled, don't look at
this or
this, or read the text accompanying these videos.