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-The starting point of the multiple-prediction effect best known as "Confabulation" (named after a version of it by Alan Shaxon) is Stewart James's “The Perfect Prediction” in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38571/The+Sphinx/20|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 28 No. 4, June 1929, p. 140, which includes loading of the prediction into a wallet.+The starting point of the multiple-prediction effect best known as "Confabulation" (named after a version of it by Alan Shaxon) would seem to be "Mental Projection Extraordinary" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/23257/The+Life+and+Mysteries+of+the+Celebrated+Dr+Q/95|The Life and Mysteries of the Celebrated Dr. Q]]// by Alexander (stage name of Claude Conlin)1921, p. 93. Two methods are given. The first involves carbon impression inside an envelope; the second uses pocket writing.
  
-James returned to the idea in an article, "Two Fearless Feats" (the first trick of which was later retitled The Ball of Fortune), in the June 1940 issue of //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15792/Jinx+No+098|The Jinx]]//, No. 98, June 1940, p. 601wherein the prediction was found inside ball of wool.+Stewart James made a significant advance in method with his Perfect Prediction” in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38571/The+Sphinx/20|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 28 No. 4, June 1929, p. 140which utilized double writing and loading of the prediction into sealed envelope or nest of envelopes, using the load tube from the old "Ball of Wool" trick.
  
-George Grimmond came up with “Triple Forecast” c. 1947. It was released in early 1951 by Harry Stanley’s Unique Magic Studio (see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/3010/Gen+Vol+06/345|The Gen]]//, Vol. 11 No. 6, Mar. 1951, p. 345)In Grimmond's trick, the prediction is found inside two nested envelopes that were hanging from a stand at the outset.+Shortly after this James item appeared, Theodore Annemann published "A Prophecy of the Koran" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14400/The+Book+Without+a+Name/58|The Book without a Name]]//, 1931, p. 58His approach involves a switch of the card sealed inside an envelope.
  
-In 1948Al Koran reinvented the use of a wallet as the container for his triple predictioncontributed to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/5320/Pentagram+Vol+03/3|Pentagram]]//, Vol. 3 No. 1Oct. 1948, p. 1under the title of "A Letter from Al Koran". For his performancesby 1950 he had developed a "Dream Holiday" presentation for the trick. By 1956 he was using a 'Dream Car" presentation.+James returned to the trickessentially repeating his method from //The Sphinx//, in an article, "Two Fearless Feats" (the first trick of which was later retitled “The Ball of Fortune”)in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15792/Jinx+No+098|The Jinx]]//, No. 98June 1940, p. 601. His method is the samebut the prediction is loaded into a ball of wool instead of an envelopereturning the loading tube to its original home.
  
-Specifically inspired by Grimmond's "Triple Forecast", Alan Shaxon developed “Confabulation” in the 1960s, and later marketed it with Ken Brooke in 1970.+Though he cites no precedents, William S. Houghton embellished on Annemann's structure and applied some of James's thinking in "'Prediction Supreme' Routine," in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38727/The+Magic+36/23|The Magic 36]]//, 1943, p. 21. Double writing is added to Annemann's card-in-envelope switch. 
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 +George Grimmond came up with “Triple Forecast” c. 1947. It was released in early 1951 by Harry Stanley’s Unique Magic Studio (see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/3010/Gen+Vol+06/345|The Gen]]//, Vol. 11 No. 6, Mar. 1951, p. 345). In Grimmond's trick, the prediction is found inside two nested envelopes that hang from a stand at the outset. 
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 +In 1948, Al Koran changed the container for his triple prediction to a wallet and contributed his routine to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/5320/Pentagram+Vol+03/3|Pentagram]]//, Vol. 3 No. 1, Oct. 1948, p. 1, where it appeared under the title of "A Letter from Al Koran". By 1950 he had developed a "Dream Holiday" presentation for his performances of the trick. And by 1956 he was using a 'Dream Car" presentation. 
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 +Specifically inspired by Grimmond's "Triple Forecast", Alan Shaxon developed “Confabulation” in the 1960s, and later marketed it through Ken Brooke in 1970.
  
 (This history courtesy of Max Maven.) (This history courtesy of Max Maven.)
  
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