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@J'ttemeJ- @!#to/ionTELEKINESIS

objects withoutis: thecontact

apparent production of motion inor other physical means.

PSYCHOKINESIS is: The production or alteration of motionby influence of the mind.

Webster's New International Dictionary

So what is Memo-Motion? Read on, please.

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copyright by Al MannExclusives, (5/97)

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MEMO-MOTION C (>n t ,

FOREWORO-

An AME EXCLUSIVE

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For centuries, the magician's best friend has been his secrethidden wires; and invisible ~hreads. rsually the wires and"threads on stage could be seen easier than the illussion8.

Yet magicians have done wellshaking seeming miracles have beenthreads and wires.

with threads and"'wire.s. Worldcreated by the~id o~" secret

We have heard that the biblical prophets and others beforethem could make a vase dance upon a high shelf by the aid of ahidden thread. Dr. Henry Slade could make a chair fall from thesky by the aid of a thread. Johann Hofzinser of Vianna ~ould

command a heavy book to open by itself, seemingly, to reveal achosen card. Today, magicians do well with the, invisible thread.

I can not do trickscan not see the threadthread.

with invisible thread simply, because Iand I am always in fear of breaking the

So probably for the first time an attemp~ will be made inthis mns. to collect new ideas to create pseudo-psychic-motion• Ichoose to call it memory-motion. In the past I have reffered toit as The Clashing Force. The more one studies this phenomenonthe more it identifies itself as a res ponce by mother nature. Andit has nothing to do with the psychic," but" tell no one, and letyour .~udience believe what they wish.

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to the M~gician, becomes

telekinesis and psychokinesis or plain kinetics or kinematics toyour audience. Weird!

Inert matter, as every well informed magician knows, has amemory. If you fold an index c~rd in half, for example, and placeit on a table, the card will open out by itself in an a~tempt toreturn to its original state. What is most amazing is that,thisrule applies to almost anything, envelopes, books, plastic,cardboard, playing cards, and in some cases, wood, etc.

I have touched on this subject several times before in othermns. See THE SEVEN SEALS, THE ROAD TO LHASA, THE CLASHING FORCE,SCORPIO'S CURVE, THE WOCUS LEGACY AND THE PURLOINED THOUGHT.

THE ARCA BOX is the most amazing of all.

CHAPTER ONE

INDEX CARDS

Enter the wonderland of the arcane mysteries, if you dare,and woe to those who betray the trust!

What is an acane mystery in dealing with memory-motion? Tothe uninitiate it looks like a meaningless and insignificant move.To the Magician it can be The Keys to the Kingdom. - Themere folding in half of an index card and placing it on the table,can give the Magician the gift to speak with the dead, theability to read thoughts and to heal the sick.

So! Let us start folding index cards in half. we will use 5white index cards, 3" by 5" in size. The cards must be cleanand fresh and brand new if possible. I prefer unruled cards.

1. Take the first card and let us call this card, card Xand .mark an X on the card so that you can recognize it later.

2. Fold card X exactly in half with the X in the insideand DO NOT OPEN IT AGAIN.

3. Then place the folded card flat on the table and pressyour thumb nail hard along the crease of the fold, up and downseveral times. You must make sure that the crease is wellbroken. BUT ONLY ON ONE SIDE OF THE FOLDED-IN-HALF CARD. (DO NOTopen and refold the card back and force. The card must befolded only in one direction)

4. Then place card X under an ash tray or dish in thefolded condition.

5. Next fold the other four index cards in half but DO NOTBREAK THE CREASE AT THE FOLD. You must not break the crease on

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the last four cards.and mix them up.

Then place the cards together with card X

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NOW! FOR THE AMAZING REVELATION.

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Throw the cards on the table one at ain their folded condition. The unmarkedcards will open up, raising their loosefor about 1-1/2 to 2 inches, and willlike in Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

BUT CARD X will open out only a bit,about 1/2 inch, as shown in Fig. 2. You canspot this from across the room, BUT youraudience sees nothing but the five fo1ded-in­half cards.

Fig. 2

I must assume that the person reading this materialmaster magician and well informed in the magical arts. Sothe above information, he/she knows exactly what can be done.

is awith

To mind comes 'The Test Of The Dead.' So let us do the LandD test to the lovely lady sitting across the table from you.After some heavy flattery and the reading of the cards or palm youproceed to dazzle the lady with the Test of the Dead.

You have prepared one X indexmark it with an X. Instead draw aone end. Draw a line (likewise)cards you intend to use.

card by folding it, BUT do notline about 1/2 or 3/4 inch fromalso on the other four index

Give the X card to the lady telling her to write on the linethe name of a dead person. Someone dear to her. ·Caution her notto l~t you see what she writes. She is to cover the name byre-fo1ding the card in half. (caution. Take the card away from thelady right after she folds it in half, as she may want to fold thecar into a tiny wad, for secrecy). Place the card under an ashtray or any paper weight.

Nextany adultto writeis folded

she is told to think of the f u Lk name,male member of her family , one that ishis full name, first and last name.in half and placed under the X card.

of an uncle orstill alive and

The uncle card

The lady is next told to write the full nameaunt still alive on a third card. The aunt cardhalf and placed with the other two cards.

of a favoriteis refolded in

The lady is next told to think of a son or nephew still aliveand to write the first name only on the fourth card. This card is

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also refolded and placed with the others under the paper weight.

On the fifth card the lady is told to write the first name ofa daughter or niece.

Now the performer takes thefive folded cards and gives them tothe lady for mixing. The lady isnext instructed to spread out herright hand and put it flat on thetable. Performer takes the foldedcards and places one each underthe fingers and thumb of her righthand as in Fig. 3. The cards areplaced under the ladies finger tipsso that theloose ends of the cardsare towards the performer, whilethe folded centre of the cards istowards the lady.

Keep in mind that the ladymixed the cards and she does notknow which card contains whichname. The performer could evenpick up the dead name card and readit and the lady could not be thewiser since she assumes that thereis no way to tell which is thedead person.

NOTE: Fig. 4 shows theperformer picking up the lady'sfinger tips one at a time to placethe folded cards as in Fig. 3. Theperf~rmer already knows which isthe dead name card. He spotted theX card when the cards were placedon the table before placing thecards under the lady's finger tips.Performer has ample time and manyopprtunitles to glimpse the deadname since the folded cards arepartly open. BUT the lady seesnothing but blank folded cards.During the process the performerlearns another name, say 'Bobby'under finger tip 4.

Fig. 3

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Note; in Fig. 4, the l)erformer"'s left hand has been moved abit to the left to show the folded card. In practice the left handcovers up the action. In fact ;if needed the performer can alwayslift up one of the lady ...... s finger tips to take a second glimpse ata card and ask her to say "'abracadabra,'" or whatever.

Now you know where the dead name card is and also you knowthat the name Bobby is written on the folded card under fingertip4. (If you are a memory expert you could memorize all the fivenames and their positions.) I settle for knowing the dead nameand any other name and then work one-ahead.

So you take card number 2. Don"'t open it. You donot knowwhat is actually written on card No.2. Just hold it in yourhands and say. "I get the name of Bobby. He is your nephew orson. Am I correct?" Here you glimpse the name which could beRosy. "Yes!" You say, "I am c o r r e c t v " Close the card again andthen work one ahead. The lady also agrees that you are correctalthough you did not say much.

Next pick up card No. 1. Card No.1 has the name John Smithwritten on it (for example) You say it is Rosy. "That is the nameof your daughter or niece. Am I correct?" "She is my daughter"the lady might say. "Tell your daughter She faces a brightfuture."

John Smith is not the dead name so it must be the uncle orwhomeever. Card No. 5 has the full name of an aunt or friend •

You already know the name of the dead person. So! talk withhim or her. Call him by the first name and later divulge the lastname. Your dead friend sends greetings and good wishes from hiseternal radiant shore. The naming of the dead name and tellingwhich card it is written on, should be the elimax. If you have aspi~it bell, let it ring awhile.

ANOTHER METHOD: After the lady writes all the names on thefive cards, have her mix the cards and then take the five cards inyour hands and place them one at a time on the table and cover thec~rd with your right h a n d , "Is this name of a <lead person? or isthis person alive?" Lift your hand a bit over the card and youwill be able to tell, by how much the card moves upwards, if itis that of a live person and you can even read the name as yourhand goes up and down. "This person is very much alive." Yousay.

When you come to the dead card, say "This person is deaderthan a door nail!" Pretend to get the name out of the air. Openthe card and say the name.

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Fold an index card in half and break the foldout the card and fold the opposite way and break theOpen out the card again and fo14 it the other way.

a bit. Opencrease a bit.

Re-enforce the index card by attaching to its back, threestrips of invisible scotch tape, (3/4 by 4-1/2 inches). The cardwill now have double the memory power and when released it willopen up more than 90 degrees of arc. This will make a gooddisplay card. Write the name of a force card on the top-insidehalf of the card.

Place the folded-in-half index card on the table under yourdeck of cards. Then force the card and release the index card.It will display the name of the force card beautifully.

of athatwillFig.

Take an index card and fold it in the shapeHZ" and show the victim that if you place

folded card on the table and release it, itrise up in the shape of the letter HZ" as in5 • Fig. 5

Now you say to the victim, "I can makehigher." "I will bet you $10 that if you foldof a HZ" like I did and I also fold anotherreach higher than yours. It really is a 50-50

the carda card incard, mychance."

stand upthe shapecard will

You lie.

Fig. 6

You must use a prepared card. Sobefore the show, take an index card andfold it into thirds in the shape of a"Z.", and break the creases a bit. Openo u t Lth e card and fold in the oppositedirection and break the creases a bit.Prepare two cards and then open them outflat. Place one prepared card secondfrom the top of the stack of index cardsand another preparcct car~ fourth fromthe top. The fourth car is there in casethe victim wants try again. The victimmust not know that the cards have beenprepared or prefolded.- - Your card willstand out taller, Fig. 6.

I heard that one sharpie won a $1000 bet with thesecret.

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Why is it? that if the magician folds an indexcard accordion fashion, Fig. 7, and places it on the table whilethe spectator does the same with another index card, THEMAGICIAN'S CARD SPREADS OUT ALMOST TWICE AS MUCH AS thespectator's card?

It is an enigma, I say. To perform the above, you mustprepare one card (or more, depending how many ~imes you ~ish to doit). Take an index card and fold it accordion fashton. I foldmine in half. Then into quarters. And finally into eighths.

Next, you must fold all the folds in the opposite direction.Be s v r e to try this at home before you present it to the victim.

So no matter how the victim folds his card as long as it isacordion fashion, Your card, when you put it on the table willspread out almost twice as much as the victim's card.

The victim should be given a choice of one of severalunprepared index cards.

Fi g. 8 Fig. 9

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The same laws apply when you fold the index card in half thelong way as in Fig. 8 and then into quarters as in Fig. 9.You must prepare your card before the show by folding it in half,first the short way as in Fig. 1 and breaking the crease byfolding the card back and forth several times. Next open up thecard and fold it in half the long way (fig. 8) and again break thecrease by folding the card back and force. Do the same thing withall the folds. After you have folded the card into quarters asin Fig. 9, invert the fold and fold the card again in the oppositedirection into quarters and hold it at your finger tips. Whenyou release the folded card it will spring open wider than thevictim's.

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CHAPTER TWO'.

PLAYING CARDS

Most good quality playing cards are coated. So these responda bit differntly from the uncoated index cards. In the followinginstructions I use the bridge size magician's Fox Lake cards.

Hold a deck of playing cards face down in your left hand.Secretly behind the deck, fold the top card in half so that theface of the card shows. Then open it out again. Deal the secondcard to the victim and tell him to do what you do.

You take the top prepared card and fold it inthe back of the card shows and tell the victim tothing with his card. The victim folds his card intell him to place the card flat on the table andcrease with his thumb nail as you do the same thing.

half so thatdo the same

half and thento break the

NOTE: What you have done is that you have reversed the foldof your card. Secretly you folded your card once and then openit. Then you have folded the card a second time but in theopposite direction from the first fold, as you instruct the victimhow to fold his card. The victim is only aware of the cards beingfolded one time.

When both cards are placed on the table your card with standhigher than the victim's.

This is another version of Al Baker's classic, "The deck thatcut s ,i t s elf • "

Let the VIPWork the card toface-up

choose anythe top and

card and then return it to the deck.then hold the deck in your left hand

As I n Fip;. 10, the upper sloeof the first finger of the lefthand applies pressure upwards tothe far end of the deck. DO NOTMOVE THE LEFT HAND. The right handpushes the deck forward and thebottom card buckles against yourright thumb tip. Then it is aneasy matter to fold the card inhalf.

Cut the deck in half leaVing

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the folded (chosen card) in~ the center. Hold the deckface-up about one foot over the table and say. "I do not knowwhat card you chose but I am going to com~and thatit folds in half." Drop the deck on the table and the f~lded

chosen card pops out and cuts the deck.

Here is a nice routine to work with the Diplo-Mental pouch orany device that shows four faces. You use the S-star Miracle deckalso known as the Al Koran deck. This deck forces one of fourforce cards.

1. Get four duplicates of the four force cards and fold themin half, one at a time, with the faces showing.

2. straighten out the cards.

3. Place one card each in each pocket of the wallet, facesshowing.

4. Fold down one card (in half) in the wallet so that onlythe back shows. This card you will show to the VIP as you openyour wallet saying that you have placed one card in your walletand then close the wallet and put it aside on the table •

5. Force one of the four cards in the deck.

6. Open out your wallet and fold down the card there,assuming it is not folded. By doing that you have reversed thefold on the card which will give it more spring. Take out the.folded card and place it on the table loose ends toward the VIP.Re~ease the card as it opens out to show your prediction.

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MEMO-MOTION BCHATER THREE

Wood responds in simlar ways withsmall wooden objects like kitchen matchesand wooden tongue depressers, etc.

Try a household kitchen match. Wetthe wooden part of the kitchen match(you can wet the match in your mouth) andthen break it in the middle. Your matchwill look like in Fig. lIB. Yourprepared match will open up to abut a 90degree angle. The VIP gets a dry matchand when he breaks it in half, his matchwill look like in Fig. llA. His matchopens up only about 20 degrees.

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The problem is a bit different ifyou use wooden fireplace matches. Thesewooden matches are eleven inches long.If you break one in the center the matchwill break clean into two ~ieces. So youhave to break the match about 1 or twoinches from one end. Wet the section ofyour match that you are going to bend.When you bend your match it will looklike in Fig. 12B. Your match opens outabout 85 degrees.

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The VIP gets a dry match. After hebends it his match will look like in Fig.12A. his bent piece opens out onlyabout 20 degrees.

The fireplace match is long enoughto repeat the test several times.

Fig. 12

If you wish to expriment with woodenpencils, try soft lead pencils. It doesn o.t work with hard lead pencils. Due tothe lead the pencil will break into twopieces •

. Wooden tonguelollypop sticks andobjects work well.

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CHAPTER FOUR

BOOKS, ENVEROPES AND PLASTIC

THE BOOK DROP: In effect: A spectator is given three paperback books and is told to drop the three books on the floor. Ifany of the books open up due to the drop, the page showing will bethe chosen page and the first word on thas page will be used for atest. It may happen that all three books open up in which case allthree books can be used for the test. Or another person is told topick up a book that did not open up and to choose any page. TheMentalist devines all the page numbers and the words.

For these effects,books, 4-1/4 inches by 7about 200 pages or less.

you willinches in

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several small paper back(or a bit smaller) and of

prepared. The(if possible,

It is veryaudience be

PREPARING one book: Only one book needs to betwo other books may be borrowed from the audience,otherwise any three paper back books will do.)important that two paperback books belonging to theused and that the audience knows about it.

Take a paper back book of about 200pages or less and prepare it by openingout the book and breaking its spine atpages 86 and 87. For example. Open outthe book at these pages and bend thebook back against itself, cover tocover, and then apply pressure to thespine until the spine breaks easily atthat spot (say pages 86 and 87) every timeyou drop the book. Fi g. 13 A and B showtwo views of the the book bent againstits -c ov e r s , Fig. 13A

Fig. 14

You must make sure that the spine is broken. In some booksyou hear the spine snap when it breaks. With some books the spinebreaks into two parts b u t remains attached to the book by thepaper cover binding.

I. Fig. 13B

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Fig. IS

To be sure it is best to place the opened book under a weightover night, 1f you have the time, (or for a few hours before showtime) Fig. 14 shows the book~held firmly by two dog cl~ps.

With the above preparation thebook will open out at pages 86/87every time you drop it on the floorfrom about tree feet or over thetable from about one foot. Hold thebook or books BY THE SPINE (Fig.lS).before droping them

When the prepared book isdropped, it opens out in mid air andlands on the floor or tableface-down. - You want it to be facedown. Caution the spectator not tolet you see the page number. Pretendyou do not know the page number. Ifyou drop three books, it may happenthat the two unprepared books mayopen also to page, who knows? Butthat is of little concern, becauseif you know the first word on page86 of the prepared book, you canthen work one ahead.

WORKING ONE AHEAD. Three books are dropped on the floor andone or more of the books open up before they hit the floor.Mention the fact to the audience and ask one spectaotr to pick anybook.

Say he picks one of the indiffernt books (and not theprepared book). "Choose any rar;e." You say. "And if you do notlike.' that page pick another one. 1 want you to have a free choiceof the page and I want the audience to know that." DO NOT LOOK ATTHE PAGE NUMBER YET." You say. "Please note that I am going towrite something on this card and place it on the table."

What you write is the first word on page 86 of the preparedpaper back. Say it is the word 'fortune.' "NOW! To what page didthe book open to?" That is your chosen page by chance choice."what page did you choose?" Please look at the left hand page."What is the number of the left hand page?" He tells you the pageand the first word on it. Let's say the first word on the pageis ... failed ....

Ask another spectator to pick a book. If he picks theprepared book the test ends there as you write the word that thefirst person read ... failed .... Pick up the two cards you wrote on andturn them over and pass them to the audience to read.

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If the prepared book is left to the last, you are stillone-ahead and then you cah t~11 the person holding t~e secondindiffernt book to concentrate on any word of his choosing on anypage and to tell the audience his choice. Write down the 'lastword chosen on a second card, etc.

NOTE: When doing the book test with the first word on thepage (in your prepared book), which you already know, NEVER TELLTHE PERSON TO READ OFF THE FIRST WORD ON THE CHOSEN PAGE. THATSOUNDS TOO SUSPECT. Tell him instead to start reading the page tohims~lf. As soon as he starts reading say "Stop! I caught one wordit starts with the letter 'f.' Please concentrate on that word."

NOTE: Say that when you drop your prepared book on the flooror table it opens out to the correct page 95% of the time. Soundsgreat BUT WEWANT TO BE RIGHT 100% of the time! So you prepare thebook a bit more.

Please note Fig. 16. The prepared book is held inposition by a bull dog paper clip. Lift page 87 and placeblob of rubber cement close to the pine between pagers 88Do the same with pages 90 and 91 and pages 92 and 93.

an opena smalland 89.

pages 84 and 85, 82 and 83 and 80 and 81.after the rubber cement has dried the bookit has the extra pull of the' cemented

Do the same betweenWhen the book is closedlooks about normal YETpages.

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ell et!oJ/i;z~ePJ:eJi(]tZOJRThis effect is a prediction of the choice of a page and-word

with the added touch of psycho-kinesis. A duplicate book on thetable opens up to the chosen page by itself. A sealed envelope inthe book predicts the choice of the word a~d page.

Youspines ofbook andscissors.

will need two duplicate paper back books, (break thethe duplicate books at the page to be chosen), the forceother books. Plus the prepared prediction envelope,

A plastic sheet 1/32 of an inch thick.

THE PAGE FORCE. One page will be forced. The force must bedone in a way that the audience is convinced that the person had afree choice of a page. The best way that I know to do that is bythe use of another book. Nothing can be fairer than telling aperson to insert an index card or a book mark or a playing cardinto a book to choose the page. After he inserts the card tellhim to open up the book and look at the left hand page.

The book to use for the choice of a page must be one of themany force books now in the market. These books have one page andone page number repeated throughout the book. I use my book,"The Damned Thing." It shows pages 86 and 87 only. This book isused ONLY FOR THE CHOICE OF A PAGE NUMBER. After the p~ge numberis chosen, the spectator is told to remember the number. That ishis chosen page number which will be looked up in another book.The reason' for this is that the force book cannot be examinedwhile the other book can.

THE WORD FORCE. After the page is chosen with the force booka spectator is given one of the dupliucatebooks and told to openup the book to the chosen page and check the first word. on thepage' (or the first paragraph beginning or chapter beginning orwhatever.) You of course know the entire contents of the page.

PREPARING THE PREDICTION ENVELOPE: It is . the envelope thatwill trigger off the opening of the book while you are farawayfrom it.

1. Get a letter envelope, size 3-1/2 by 6 inches.

2. Cu tplastic thefit snuggly

off from a 1/32 inchsize of the envelope

in the envelope.

thick plastic sheetso that the plastic

a piece ofpiece will

3. Rubber cement white paper on both sidea of the piece ofplastic so that it will resemble a card. You will write yourprediction of the page and word chosen on this card.

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Fig. 17

4. Seal the card with thepredictions in the letter envelope andwrite the word "PREDICTION" on bothsides of the envelope. As in fig. 17.

MEMO-MOTION cont.

5. Bend the prediction envelope inthe shape of a pear and stick itbetween the force pages of one of theduplicate books as shown in Fig. 18.DO NOT BREAK THE CREASE ON THE ENVELOPEIn Fig. 18, the prediction envelopeshows in white.

Fig. 18Fig. 19

6. Place the prepared book (Fig. 18) on a table underneath apile of books. Just place enough book over it to keep it fromopening. In Fig. 19, the prepared book is at the bottom right.

7 • After the page and word is chosen you tell the spectator

that something strange is abou t to happen. Tell him to stand by

the stack of h o o k s .'1 n 0 r. 1 V 0 YOll, or th row At yOI1 one hook at a

time. Af t e r enough book s have been removed the prepared book will

be thrown open by the envelope and it will look like in Fig. 20.

YOST AN~ HIS TYPEWRITER

en. ol ~ cluaic us I cl .pil'hullJt1c fleeclzartlat 01.G. W. YCit. I.l1o iDYUltor,&lid _ lIZI.I.y IU~--:m&4 01 • .aentilic tum 01 aWwi.Thb wu iA 1895, ....

MANY METHODS OF GETTINGINFORMA110101

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Fig. 20

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•MEMO-MOTION cont.

InNepomukwas far

Hoffzinser's fabulousn0te?:~ringS, threads or wires are used. .

\.'.,:.:;..;~ (rAhis magic t h'eatr e in Vienna,.'-;::ma,.ster magician, Johann

Hofzinser made "a 'ni~ssive b~Ol<'~ l~:,n._....s..:t.age open up while heaway, to reveal ~~'1.~d chos:en{~XI·t.tte a~ience.

i1\ \ .\\ \In the CATAPULT e fectF{;~a massive 'bo.ok o p e n s up to reveal a

sealed envelope predic ng ~h\e"',~hoi~e of ~1'P 'ge·r nd word.

I \~(h), \ \ \ \.\~. 'r.;~... , ',::,""Experimenting th th me~~~~ responc~' ~ 1~rnert matter, I

discoveed that a s h t of p asti~~~~~f.\OUl\d\ bid.d~;.~nou~. energy tothrow open a heavy o k , S a ~.h,~~~,QL,pl. S ..iiC -17·~,,,,n.~~;Xnch thickwas disguised',..,.~_~.,_. ,.caFd· wi h the ~~ic\1fr ,n 9,:,: .. : i't~'.~nd -s e a Le d inan env~op-e~"... rhe nrm.l ck wo ked p e ' :e·;~ .• \ <, ". ~

..~ • J \. \' ....~, \ .......

Fi \s ~":7"~?-I:;:~.)e·:~·~:~r env lope I~ s~pow1\~~'-' id Fi~~17, .' wast r i ed, b\u C' ft' t' ,";\>,n 0 t. mea sur e-, up toth e t"'k s -.<,bf ...9.l:l.e.n.Ln.g--tl1'"':"'~book. So the s i''fi~- th~~ l'

1P.e ·w·as·i 11....C.k.-~··-''''''-:'''''tl(. J\ ~;4V /---------;jfffi\,: /":;;.::~:~

The bO·'~kr-",,~u-s-·e·d~~"~~igh s ~hree ;{{i,§i;. ". ;' /;/"-'-'~~~'\_p o un d san d c o nIt a ins :fJ,~'l5 page s .The,\ "i.;.'~~~,_----" {/ .../? \titleo f the brG~ i s / The ·~~u ....-- J; ... ,.... •Confessions ~f Aleister- Crowl~.)\! \\ »o)

~~ , /'f~ ;,' M .

The envelope used is a manilaend-opening envelope 6 by 9 inches.

~~~hnr}ad~f:l!fl1:. ofstage effects. BUT

The envelope is sealed and theword 'Prediction,' is written onboth sides of the envelope.

Plastic sheets are sold inhobby shops and some stationerystores. These come in dlfferenttextures.

plastic sheet withthat it resembles a

Cover thepaper sowhite

card.

The piece of plastic sheet usedme~sures 5-3/4 inchs by 8-3/4inches, and is 1/32nd inch thick.This fits smoothly in the envelope.

HOFZINSER

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We are using a large book just toimpress the audience. So our 960 page 3pound book is prepared as follows. ( Aheavier,bo~~ like a dictionary can be usedalso)

MEMO-MOTION THE CATAf.'ULT can t ,

NOTE: This effect creates the illussion in the minds of theaudience who believe that a very large bvok opened out by itself.Actually what opens up is only the first few pages up to page 86,which is only 43 sheets which is a small portion of the heavybook.

A word and a page has been forced by your favotite manner.Let us use again page 86/87 and the word is 'faild.' - Theprediction is written on the white-paper-covered plastic sheet.You predict the choice of a page and first wo~d and also if youwish you can pre die t the fir s two r d 0 n"p a. g e 8 6' 0 f the big boo k ,plus any other prediction you care to make. "The real estatemarket will have a boom soon!" This is sealed into the envelope.

(NOTE: Some envelopes are not air-tight. There Ls always abit of air caught inside the envelope, especially if you were towrap the prediction card in onion skin paper. You can make theenvelope air tight by placing strips of invisible scotch tape onthe outside corners of the envelope. The small amount of airtrapped inside the envelope will convert the envelope into an airpillow. This small insignificant amount of air will help greatlyin giving the envelope more memory power.)

Fold the sealed prediction envelope into the shape of a borseshoe (do not break the crease in the folded envelope) and place itbetween pages 86 and 87 df the big book as shown in Fig. 18.

It may be a good thing to also place a red ribbon book markbe~~een pages 86-87. The book mark may cause more speculation.

Place the big book under apile of books, But here thepile of books is a bitdifferent t.h a n in t.h r- p r o v l o u seffect. In Fig. 21, theprepared book is book "X."

Book X isplaced on the table and as inFig. 21, another heavy book isplaced on the very edges ofthe X book. If needed morebooks are placed over thesecond book until book X stayspu t ,

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Fig. 21

•MEMO-MOTION THE CATAPULT cont.

The reason for the unusual pile of books as shown in Fig. 21.s because after the spectator picks up the books leaning on the~dge of book X , the catapult effect is free to act and the X bookrill fly open in full view of the audience.

-.-., book X will

presentation.book Xup the

top ofgumm

books directly onthe book above it and

arehit

If thereopen and

Xbookhow theopen.

copies ofv flies

exact photolook after book

and 22 areenvelope

NOTE: Fig. 20the predictionrad

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w'",m l'tn"dllnC"I, bI.1 wilh.)U'l; amblUlln, 11001. "u InIC'h'\t ill lilt:S~

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Do you own a locked bo~k?

~ou shoul d.. A lock ed book s ugge s tsJeep mystery. What is in it? thatshould be kept locked.

A spicy diary?blackmail? valuebles?

MEMO-MOTION con t ,

photos? Fig. 23

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Imagine the impact to the audience when a spectator isconvinced that he had a free choice of page and word and then isgiven a tiny key to open the locked book. The book flies open andreveals the prediction.

Big Deal! the reader may say. That c a n ib e done with as~ring mechanism like a rat trap. That is correct. But how do youhide the mechanism after the effect. You must also cut a wellinto the pages of the book to place the rat trap. The book cannot be inspected by the audience if questioned.

With The Catapult technique, the book is intact and can beexamined. The prediction envelope should not be suspect, afterall who is going to imagine that you bent the envelope into ahoreseshoe shape to cause a 990 page 3 pound book to fly open.That would be cheating.

It has given me great pleasure toit is a trail blazer. A new vistamagician to peruse ••

write this mn s ,with new avenues

I believefor the

beginning. The surface 'is only slightlysure that there are hundreds of other ideasalong these same lines.

It took many hours of research and experimentation, sleeplessnights and ideas recorded over the years to put this mns.together.Yet it is only thescratched. We can bewaiting to be refined

Your expired credit cards, don't throw them away. These aremade of good plastic and can release enough memory powqer to openup a small book (or what-have-you). Play with them. Someexperimants wit metal are needed.

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