Comments: No tricks. Essays on the art of magic.

Contents:
3 Film to Life
3 Art and Magic
5 Improving on Art
5 The Filmed Version
6 Anatomy of the Effect
8 White Line Problem
9 Block Analysis
11 Suicide Structure
11 Boundary Value Problems
12 What’s the Method?
13 Law of Stupid Audiences
13 Art of Imitating Art
14 Anatomy of Method
15 Mindreader’s Dream
16 Effect = Method
17 Method Times Five
17 Shadow vs. Substance
19 Almost Card to Wallet

24 The Word Machine
24 Four Letter Words
24 Loose Marbles
24 The Frequent E
25 Like English
26 The King’s English
27 Crypto Books
28 Crossed Words
29 The Perfect Book Test

35 Self Duplicating Set Ups
35 Infinite Regress
39 Real to Reel
40 Super Sentences
41 Self Reproducing Machines
45 Well Stacked
48 The Puritan Ethic
49 A New Genetic Code
50 Like Father
52 Shuffling Off to Eden
54 By Two and Two
55 Centering