Good/wierd Qoutes from various books, part 1
I went through alot of books, and these are some sentences that made me think/stop/laugh/dance/drink pepsi or what have you. I think you’ll enjoy them as well as I did.
“It takes a lot of hard work to make it seem like you are not working at all.”
This was in a magic forum, a member called zoraxe , This was my introduction into the world of being natural ( school of Vernon ).
“Often, when asked to describe their grip, they are at a complete loss for words and summarize by saying, “Just place the deck in your left hand and deal.” Excellent advice, but difficult to follow”
This was written in Jean Hugard, at the introduction of False Deals chapter in Expert Card Technique. What I like about this is the concept of practicing sleights, then forgetting them, in other words, let the hands do the sleight while you’re thinking of something else, like the trick you are doing to the spectator. This elcites smoothness and “nonchalance’” in your card work, which is obviously good. By the way, this was brought to my attention in Jay Sankey’s excellent book, Beyond Secrets.
Like many other descriptions of sleights, the author either did not know the true intricacies or carelessly omitted including them, and it is just such things that distinguish a Daley, a Vernon and a Cardini from the common exponent of card butchery.
So this was written in Arther Buckley’s book Card control, in his description of Side Steal. He talks on how some authors describe the side steal, while they don’t provide the details, which means that they are not familiar with the details in first place. Such details makes moves done masterfully in the hands of the above mentioned masters.
The real illusion of card magic begins with the conviction on the part of the spectator that his card is lost among others. Without this conviction the trick has already failed.
In the introduction of Royal Road to card magic, Jean Hugard wrote whats above. Very neat.
It’s been said many times that if you want to hide a good trick, you should put it in print.
Said by Fred Braue when he published the first and original Homing Card ( made popular by Fred Kaps ) in his booklet ShowStoppers with Cards. This applies to sleights too obviously. Harry Lorayne’s Ultimate Move is an easy, verstile move to switch a card ( Apoclpse magazine vol.10, book 2 ), Slydini’s Slide Out move is one damn good control for a selected card to the top. You insert the card, you close it and its done! ( its different from his fan steal ) this was a cover item for Apoclypse magazine vol.3 I think, book 1. Abacus is one damn good mental card trick by Max Maven, only full deck stack trick I use so far ( besides memorized deck work )! Also in Apoclypse magazine book 1 vol.2 I think. Hurricane Change by Harry Lavine was first seen performed in video in the movie Shade’s introduction, the change plus an extremly good routine were published in Trapdoor magazine.
There quotes should be enough for part 1. Hope you enjoy it.
