Description
The oldest, most pernicious, and insoluble problem in the history of magic was stated best by Henning Nelms, in his 1969 Magic and Showmanship: A Handbook for Conjurers …
“No matter how astonishing a trick may be, it suffers from one major fault – it has no point.”
This ebook is the long-sought-after answer to that statement.
[Please note that access to appendix 11 and 12 requires registration at the author’s website.]
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Eric Evans
- Preface
- A Long Time Ago
- A Lot of Simple Tricks and Nonsense
- Best Star Pilot in the Galaxy
- Scum and Villainy
- Hokey Religions and Ancient Weapons
- What Are You Trying To Push on Us
- Tremor in the Force
- A New Hope
- These Aren’t The Droids You’re Looking For
- Help Me, Obi-Wan
- I’m Here to Rescue You
- The Tractor Beam
- Stretch Out With Your Feelings
- May the Force Be With You, Always
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Appendix 4
- Appendix 5
- Appendix 6: The Last Jedi: A Theory
- Appendix 7
- Appendix 8
- Appendix 9
- Appendix 10
- Appendix 11 (access to it requires registration on the author’s page)
- Appendix 12 (access to it requires registration on the author’s page)
- Appendix 13
- About the Author
1st edition 2020, PDF 203 pages.
word count: 19688 which is equivalent to 78 standard pages of text
