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Bob Sanders Grammar Supervisor Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts |
Facts are that I am a true absentminded professor. Memory is strange stuff and often even the owner doesn’t understand it. But we can learn to live with it and use it. I carry a pocket full of 3x5 index cards because I know about my memory. As they say, “A short pencil is always safer than a long memory.”
I work from sight. Once I get the picture, I can recall things that simply never mattered before, like the number of lace holes in a pair of shoes someone was wearing or time on the clock when something took place. However, a phone number wrecks the train. I have to carry them written down. But I can tell you the useless information like the tag numbers on the cars I parked between. (Finding my car might be a challenge.) Thanks to Ed Hutchison and his “Mental Mysteries” there is a great number memory routine that even I can do. It also gives a whole new meaning to Chapter 11. You have the audience generate 50 random numbers and your recall is perfect. Give it a read and try it! It's effective mental magic from a book that is short, fast and easy. Bob Sanders Magic By Sander |
islandguy New user 73 Posts |
Another idea. I have been doing Barrie Richardson's memorized deck effect "Quartet" which is getting rave reviews - and is dead simple. You can do it within 10 minutes of getting it. Doing it in an entertaining manner requires some additional imagination, but Barrie give an effective routine also. After seeing this routine, an audience member was quoted as saying of me "That's the smartest man I've ever seen" (a sheltered life, apparently). Keith
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Mike M Loyal user 244 Posts |
Bob, let me know where I can find this book. Thanks.
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islandguy New user 73 Posts |
E.R.Hutchison's Mental Mysteries was published in 1993 by Northpointe Publishing, Jackson, Mississippi. His fine book - Hypnosis: Clinical, Social and Theatrical Uses was the same year by the same publisher. They may be OOP, but try having H&R Books look for you richard@magicbookshop.com Keith
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Ed Hutchison Regular user Madison, MS (orig. CNY) 118 Posts |
Thanks to Bob Sanders and Islandguy for their kind words about my books.
I regret to say that the books ARE in print. (My preference would have been for them to have sold out the first day. But, hey, that's life. When I was a kid I always wanted to be the Queen of England but that didn't work out either.) I am willing to appoint a limited number of distributors to sell the books door-to-door. It may be that your neighborhood is open. If you sell enough you can win a Shetland pony or a Tom Mix outfit. Seriously, though, if anyone is interested they can find info about the books at the Northpointe Publishing link on my website: http://www.ERHutchison.com If you are familiar with my Future Foretold deck, you should find my impromptu (any deck) version in "Mental Mysteries" of interest. Also, the giant memory routine included therein--which can be learned in ten minutes--has been particularly well received. (The effect: Audience members call out 40 or 50 digits which you write down on a poster board. You turn away and recite the numbers perfectly. No confederates or assistants, no peeking, no electronics, and no problems.) Ed Hutchison |
islandguy New user 73 Posts |
Ed, I have used and liked your Giant Memory effect, and the Lie Detector. I like your ease of operation ideas, and have been waiting over a decade for Vol.2.
I have found, in the memory effect that 1. It has to be a fairly large audience. 2. They have to be loosened up enough that they feel free to talk over each other. Otherwise the scam may become obvious. So I use your routine for stage, and Barrie Richardson's for cabaret mentalism. Thanks, and let's have more. Keith |
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