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She marched toward me and demanded to know what was going on.
她朝我走了過來，問我發生了什么事。
The coin vanished for her too.
她也看到硬幣不見了。
"Do it again,"she said, and I did.
“再來一次，”她說，我又做了一遍。
I'm sure my hands were shaking, but when I looked up, everything had changed.
我確信我的手在顫抖，但當我抬起頭時，一切都變了。
I will remember the look on her face—the look of wide-eyed, openmouthed wonder—forever.
我永遠都不會忘記她臉上的表情——睜大眼睛、驚嘆不已。
Two certainties.
確定的事情有兩件。
First, this was clearly the greatest thing in the world.
首先，這顯然是世界上最偉大的事。
I kept seeing my teacher's face—the stern, authoritarian facade melting into shock, fear, elation, and joy, all at once.
我一直看著老師嚴厲、專制的外表瞬間轉變成震驚、恐懼、歡欣和喜悅。
The kids' too.
像孩子一樣。
My classmates had been transformed for a moment from a vaguely indifferent, vaguely hostile pack of scavengers and carnivores into real people.
我的同學們曾一度從一群淡漠、充滿敵意的食腐動物變成了活生生的人。
If you could make people feel like this, why wouldn't you do it all the time? Why didn't everyone do this?
如果你能讓人們有這種感覺，為什么不一直這樣做呢？為什么每個人不這樣做呢?
For anyone—but especially for a nine-year-old boy at a new school—this transformation is almost indistinguishable from real magic.
對任何人，尤其對一所新學校的9歲男孩來說，這種轉變幾乎與真正的魔法無異，
The second certainty was harder to reconcile.
第二個更難調和。
The more I thought about it, the stranger it became, and even now it intrigues me as much as it did that day on the playground.
我越想它，越覺得它陌生，即使是現在，我的興趣依然不減，心情和那天操場上一樣。
Here it is: All of it—the chaos, the shouting, the wideeyed wonder—came from a coin trick.
所有混亂、叫喊、睜大眼睛的驚愕表情都來自于硬幣戲法。
I knew that it was just a trick and I was just a kid.
我知道這只是個惡作劇，我只是個孩子。
But the reactions of the students and the teacher were so much greater than the sum of these modest parts that I didn't know how to explain them.
但是學生和老師的反應遠遠超過了事物本身，我不知道如何解釋。
