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| A Nice Fire to Work By |
The fire here in the drawing room is indeed roaring and I am beginning to think my wife was correct in her advice to start the fire in a fireplace rather than in a trash can under the drapes. She?s a wise one, she is. She could see the consequences of my actions better than I could and coincidentally, that is what this column is about.
I have essentially five card tricks that I do in every impromptu show I do. If I am performing in a bar, in an airport, on a plane, in an airport bar or by the bar cart on an airplane, I do the same five card tricks. I start with a classic force and a faux muscle read to determine the identity of the card; a riffle force to begin one of the least ambitious, ambitious card routine into a three card ambitious card; followed by a card to wallet or pocket and then Paul Curry?s Out of this World modified (I think by Vernon) to use a non-set up deck. And that?s it.
My stage routine is as it has been for the last four hundred years. In fact, genetically, each of my gametes had half of this routine stored in their partial DNA before I was even born. I do Bob Cassidy?s Chronologue, Gene Anderson?s Torn and Restored Newspaper, Max Maven?s B?Wave and finally a memorized deck routine stolen almost entirely from Bob Cassidy. I have often thought I should drop the Torn and Restored because it is not mental magic but I use it to show how things can appear to be what they are not.
What is my point in telling you the content of my acts? I guess it is this ? hang on, I am going to throw my drink at the…
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