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The
TRICK
BRAIN
Contents
The TRICK BRAIN
TABLE of CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
- —Clearing up a puzzle
- —Art versus science
- —The reason for a book of fundamentals
- —Where this work came from
- —Old things are best
- —Bromides
- —Time and tide
- —Of words and style and other trivialities
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- CHAPTER I
—CLASSIFICATION OF EFFECTS
- —Thousands from so few
- —Trick and effect
- —Classification of card effects, by T. Page Wright
- —Conjuring feats, as Mr. Sharpe sees them
- —Fundamental effects, through Mr. Freer's eyes
- —And nineteen effects for this work
- —Their definitions
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- CHAPTER II
—UPON THESE FUNDAMENTALS WE STAND
- —A fertile field for argument
- —You may lead a horse to water
- —What you may use
- —What you may do
- —Time
- —Conditions
- —Of repetitions and the like
- —Are secrets important?
- —But twenty from many
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- CHAPTER III
—THE BEGINNING OF APPEARANCE
- —Three ways of looking for tricks
- —From a secret place while diverted
- —The form
- —The detachable portion
- —Repeating
- —The thread, elastic and spring pulls
- —Decanters to spiders' webs
- —Spring levers and balloons
- —Guided gravity
- —Revolving panels
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- CHAPTER IV
—APPEARANCES, CONTINUED
- —Secret compartments
- —Double bottoms. double sides
- —Movable compartments
- —Mirrors
- —Cast iron elephants
- —Two compartments, either of which may become secret
- —Concealed by an accessory
- —Remote places
CHAPTER V—APPEARANCES, AGAIN
- —Expansibility
- —Eggs and chickens
- —Covering which blends with the background
- —Sliding slats
- —Loading while concealed by an accessory
- —Chemicals
CHAPTER VI—APPEARANCES, STILL GOING ON
- —Secret ingress
- —Secret passageways
- —Optical projection
- —Hollow shells
- —Secret exchange
- —Pretense
CHAPTER VII—THE VANISH
- —Opposites
- —Disposal while distracted
- —Disposal and form
- —Detachable portions for vanish
- —Pulls and the flying cage
- —Improvements
- —Secret compartments again
- —Even two secret compartments
- —Shells
- —Collapsibility
- —Covering to oblivion
- —Gone behind an accessory
- —Black art
- —Chemistry
CHAPTER VIII—VANISH, CONTINUING
- —Gone like the malefactors
- —Secret passageways
- —Optics
- —Shells
- —Reversing the appearance principle - Substitutions
- —Pretense
- —Disguise
CHAPTER IX—TRANSPOSITIONS
- —Combination vanish and appearance
- —Clocks that pass
- —Duplicates While attention is away Change in proximate surroundings
- —Secret exchange
- —Flaps
- —Compound transpositions
- —Refinements
- —Difliculties of classification
- —Disguise with a die
- —Shells and buttons
- —Concealed conveyance
- —Pretense
- —The invisible man
- —Complex transpositions
- —And other applications
CHAPTER X—TRANSFORMATIONS
- —Combination vanish and appearance
- —Dual identity
- —Bricks, billiard balls and canes
- —Substitution
- —Shells
- —Concealment
- —Bold tactics
- —Pulls Coverings
- —Secret compartments and disguise
- —The disappearing princess
- —Concealment and secret passageways
- —Disguise
- —Relative surroundings
- —Bulk, blinds and reversible panels
CHAPTER XI—PENETRATION
- —Can matter pass through matter?
- —The very few ways
- —Secret passageway
- —Around
- —Duplicates
- —New for old
- —Needles to rings
- —Substitution
- —Two obstacles and two Parts
- —Magnets
- —Collapsibility
- —Pretense
- —Implica
- —tion
- —Random examples
- —Princess, phantoms, blocks, ghosts, glasses, spokes, boxes
- —Optics, ties
- —Grandmother's contribution
- —Passageways in profusion
CHAPTER XII—RESTORATION
- —Two conditions
- —Dups again
- —Pretense
- —Disguise
- —Six ways
- —Cremation, decapitation, dismemberment and other gory details
- —Paper
- —Valuables
- —Mr. Kolar's kink
- —Ropes
- —Portions
- —Rubber bands, string, cards, plates, ribbons, neckties, handkerchiefs, ropes
CHAPTER XIII—ANIMATION
- —Invisible connection
- —Concealed connection
- —Clockworks
- —Stored up power
- —Indirect connections
- —Chemicals
- —Secret compartments
- —Human power
- —Gravity
- —Centers of gravity
- —Balance
- —Pendulums, handkerchiefs
- —Implication with silk
- —Automata
CHAPTER XIV—ANTI-GRAVITY
- —Suspension
- —Concealed support
- —Shifted center of gravity
- —Rising figures
- —Pianos
- —Invisible support
- —Ashrah
- —Magnetic repulsion
- —Atmospheric pressure
- —Threads
- —Concealed support again
- —Reels
- —Hair
- —Magnetic attraction
- —Weight
CHAPTER XV—ATTRACTION
- —Invisible support
- —Concealed support
- —Magnetism
- —Ad-hesion
- —Secret grips
- —Canes, cigarettes, tables, vases
CHAPTER XVI—SYMPATHETIC REACTIONS
- —No common characteristics
- —Silks
- —You do as I do
- —Interpretations identify
- —Effects really in other categories
- —Candles
- —Productions
- —Cards and saucers
- —Cards
- —Flocks of sympathy tricks
- —Suggestions on how to do
- —Suggested effects
CHAPTER XVII—INVULNERABILITY
- —Fire eating, cooking steaks and walking on swords
- —Rolling in a barrel of glass
- —Kids and a bed of spikes
- —In a cake of ice
- —Traps
- —Bullet catching
- —Stretching
- —Electrocution
- —Methods unique to the problem
CHAPTER XVIII—PHYSICAL ANOMALY
- —Shadows
- —Seeing through matter
- —Living heads
- —Pencils, dollar bills and other contradictions
- —Other suggestions of violated physical laws
- —Time
CHAPTER XIX—SPECTATOR FAILURE
- —An impossible game
- —Shells and cards
- —Rattle bars, foo cans, ropes and barrels
- —Conveyance, substitution, disguise, duplicates
- —Running up hands, bank nights, bingo, spell
- —downs
- —Puzzles
- —Interpretation of transformation and transposition effects
- —Threading contest
CHAPTER XX—CONTROL
- —A fine line between animation and control
- —Clocks, hands, bells and skulls John Mulholland's bell
- —Coins, hands and Bill Larsen's slipper
- —Drumsticks and snakes
- —Balls and spelling
- —Sand and a trick with liquids
- —Ducks and dogs
CHAPTER XXI—IDENTIFICATION
- —Discovery
- —How
- —Marks Delay
- —Psychology
- —Tags, crayons, sticks
- —Magnetic methods Keys
- —Arrangements
- —Mathematics
- —Latin
- —Indirect marks
- —Pyramids, discs, ballot boxes, clocks and lead pencils
- —Living and dead
- —Luminous paint
- —Glimpses
- —Forces
- —Exchange
- —Mind reading, cards and telephones
- —Indirect keys
- —Confederates Codes
CHAPTER XXII—THOUGHT READING
- —Taken from the subject
- —Reading the recorded thought How to manage a glimpse
- —One-ahead, extracting the card, and transparencies
- —Exchanges Stealing the note Feeling the writing
- —Secret impressions Carbon and wax
- —Contact mind reading
- —Microphones
- —Reading messages in the dark
- —Confederates
- —Forced thought
CHAPTER XXIII—THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE
- —Projected to the receiver
- —Codes audible and visible Memorized routines
- —Indirect codes
- —Position and felt codes
- —Specialization Forcing
- —Confederacy Secret writing
- —Delayed commitment
- —Contact mind reading
CHAPTER XXIV—PREDICTIONS
- —Foretelling the future
- —Forcing
- —Delayed commitment
- —Confederacy
- —Slates to books
- —Nail writers Pocket writing
- —Indexes and filing devices
- —Substitution
- —Providing for every contingency
- —Locked chests, sealed jars and sealed envelopes
CHAPTER XXV—EXTRA-SENSORY PERCEPTION
- —Spectacular delusions
- —Seeing with the fingertips
- —Detection other than claimed
- —Blindfolds
- —Secret identifications
- —Seeing through welded steel plates
- —Detection the F.B.I. couldn't use
- —Defective impediment
- —Interpretation again
CHAPTER XXVI—PSEUDO SKILL
- —Imitations of skill
- —Not mysteries as to method
- —Mem
- —ory
- —Balancing eggs
- —GambIing demonstrations
- —Light
- —ing matches in mid
- —air
- —Pocket picking
- —Cube root
- —Fans
CHAPTER XXVII—THE INVENTION OF NEW TRICK PLOTS
- —A numbering system
- —Drawing lots for a new trick
- —Make added lists
- —Needles, knitting and otherwise
- —Pitchers, pails and decorations
- —Sacks, birds and words
- —Arbitrary selections force the imagination
- —Original trick Plots
- —Original routines
- —Generalities broaden the field
- —Original combinations
- —Cards and THE TRICK BRAIN
- —Cards on a plate
- —Practical experience
CHAPTER XXVIII—METHODS FOR NEW TRICK PLOTS
- —Basic methods
- —Generalized for stimulation
- —Why this book was written
- —The "how" of the needles
- —A new trick: Needles to packet
- —What flower do you prefer?
- —Say it with flowers
- —Adaptation
- —Method selection
- —Animated sympathetic rope
- —Weed out those you don't like
- —THE TRICK BRAIN does many things
CHAPTER XXIX—THE TRICK BRAIN
- —Introducing THE TRICK BRAIN in person
- —What it is
- —How it works
- —Lists of basic effects
- —List of essential factors
- —Lists of objects
- —Lists of basic methods
CHAPTER XXX—TECHNIQUES OF INVENTION
- —How various inventors attack the thirty-card trick
- —Leipzig, Buckley. Baker, Zens, Scarne. Vernon
- —Card to the Pocketbook by various methods
- —The Diminishing Cards by Bertram. Chapender, Stanyon, Baker and Walsh
- —The Bill In Cigarette by many. including Rae, Thayer, Ervin, Davenport
- —The wands
- —Sawing a woman
- —Six card repeat
- —Many effects with blocks
- —Whiskey glasses
- —Trunk tricks
- —How method is shaped by style and circumstances
- —The linking rings
- —Conditions and capabilities
CHAPTER XXXI—SLEIGHT-OF-HAND TRANSLATIONS
- —Mechanical methods apply to sleight-of-hand performers
- —The hand is a mechanical device
- —Secret hiding places
- —Reasoning out methods
- —Bouquet to silk
- —Step-by-step analysis
- —Forms, detachable portions, pulls, secret compartments, shells
- —The hands as accessories
- —Cards as accessories
- —Coverings which blend, secret passageways. secret exchange
- —Disguise, secret compartments
CHAPTER XXXII—NEW LAMPS FOR OLD
- —Other valuable uses for THE TRICK BRAIN
- —How tricks may be changed in effect
- —Interpretation again
- —Shelves full of unused tricks and devices
- —Reclaiming them for new purposes and uses
- —An example with The Passe Passe Bottles
- —Analyzing what they really may be
- —An example with the mirror glass
- —What to look for and how THE TRICK BRAIN will suggest new uses
CHAPTER XXXIII—THE ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE
- —Marshaling the elements of the mechanics of magic
- —Disagreements are expected
- —Reduction to final elements is intended
- —The foundations of mechanical magic
- —Tools are tricks
- —Technique of performance
- —Overcrowded workshops and unskilled mechanics
- —All the tricks you will ever need
- —Mechanics not profound
- —Fundamentals all here
- —A list of the fifty
- —four elements
- —Are these the true secrets of magic?
- —What of the mind?
CHAPTER XXXIV—GLOSSARY OF DEFINITIONS OF FUNDAMENTAL EXPEDIENTS
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