These are my lecture notes from the recent Session convention in London, containing six whimsical routines for parlor and close-up.
12 pages, 31 illustrations.
Contents:
- Mittens The magician show his hands and say it is unfair to use those “weapons of deceptions” against the audience. As a handicap, the magician put on thick oven mittens before beginning a card trick. Despite the handicap, the two signed cards are found inside the mittens.
- The Suss A parlour routine with post cards, based on the ‘Ship of Theseus’ paradox. A signed postcard is, bit by bit, replaced with another postcard, but the new postcard is still signed.
- A Handy Gift An absurd intermission piece. The magician is handed a wrapped gift which is annoyingly difficult to open, and scissors are brought out. “Just what I needed!” the magician says after peeking into the package. “Scissors!” – and as a pair of scissors falls out of the package, the scissors in the hand disappears.
- Flatworm Fry A demonstration of memory transfer. One spectator looks at a card but forgets it, while another spectator who never seen the card remembers it.
- Color Deaf A small piece of silliness. Various named colors are all written down as “Grey” due to “color deafness”. But as the illness is cured, the writing changes into the named colors.
- White Death Darwinism and precognition comes together in this close-up routine where the spectator tries to evade an icy cold demise.
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