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In 2003 David Blaine completed 44 days suspended in a plastic box over the Thames, surviving only on water. In part one of the television programme David Blaine: Above the Below (2003) he explained his reasoning: ‘because I wanna feel’.
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Allen, S. (2013). Introduction. In: Cinema, Pain and Pleasure. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137306692_1
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