Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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cards:knife_force_with_deck [2018/08/29 17:36] – Added Asti citation. stephenminchcards:knife_force_with_deck [2018/10/07 11:30] – Added glimpse. tylerwilson
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 A very early form of the force is poorly described in an anonymous notebook written circa 1800, transcribed and published by Will Houstoun as //The Notebook//, 2009, p. 21. In Item 17, the force card is injogged for more than half its length and bowed downward against the performer's chest, so that it may be concealed by his hand as someone inserts the point of a knife into the outer end of the deck. The bowed force card is somehow repositioned above the point of the knife, but the description of this is difficult to understand: "the head of it [the force card] buried in one end is cautiously inserted by pressing the breast at the opening made by the knife and so lifted & shown as the under Card of the upper parcel." A very early form of the force is poorly described in an anonymous notebook written circa 1800, transcribed and published by Will Houstoun as //The Notebook//, 2009, p. 21. In Item 17, the force card is injogged for more than half its length and bowed downward against the performer's chest, so that it may be concealed by his hand as someone inserts the point of a knife into the outer end of the deck. The bowed force card is somehow repositioned above the point of the knife, but the description of this is difficult to understand: "the head of it [the force card] buried in one end is cautiously inserted by pressing the breast at the opening made by the knife and so lifted & shown as the under Card of the upper parcel."
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 +The same outward procedure of knife-based card selection was also used to glimpse a fair selection. Alon Lord suggested using the reflection of the knife to gain knowledge of the lower card of the upper packet --- the card given to the spectator as his selection. Lord published this technique in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/38172/The+Sphinx/6|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 9 No. 1, Mar. 1910, p. 6.
  
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