I don't even want to count how many trick books were published last year alone. So why, for the love of Gutenberg, another one?
Because this is something different. Because coding principles have been developed to a degree that (as far as I know) has never been before. Because it allows for a whole series of very different effects that can be presented sequentially in a complete act, but also individually.
The books in the Simplicissimus series and their author, Grimmelshausen, are well-known, but hardly anyone has actually read them. This provides the perfect basis for a book review. Grimmelshausen also offers the advantage of an incredible language, peppered with delightful neologisms and outdated spellings, making it difficult to read fluently.
The effects:
1. The spectator looks for the beginning of a paragraph somewhere. This can also be done behind the performer's back. The first word of the paragraph is mentally transcribed letter by letter, without actually saying the letters. The transcribing fails. The word was too banal. The spectator is supposed to concentrate on the first noun in their chosen sentence. And now it works, because the performer already knows it!!! No fishing, no looking, and with a memory code that you'll learn faster than you can read the instructions—it's that simple.
2. Plus, you'll immediately know the entire next sentence. Of course, this requires a bit of memorization or a cheat sheet under a crystal ball...
3. The spectator chooses a longer noun somewhere in the book. Only place names and personal names are excluded. To find this word, you need a quick glance at the spectator's gaze and a single fish-eye, for which the instructions offer you an almost cabaret-worthy solution.
4. They discuss an experiment Springinsfeld is said to have performed as a juggler in the marketplaces. The spectator chooses a page, then flips through the book, blowing like Springinsfeld once did. Then he opens his page again. The writing has disappeared from half the page.
5. A chapter in a book describes how the tarot cards are read to an abbess. You have a spectator shuffle a deck of tarot cards and deal the top five cards to five other spectators. Each one memorizes their own. The shuffler collects the cards again, shuffles them, and places them in any place in the book. Only then do you receive it. With the randomly selected cards memorized by five witnesses, it is unique (and therefore irreplaceable). You take a hearing aid from a tray, use it to listen to the book, name the tarot cards and excerpts of text that these cards are supposed to read to you. Each time, the spectator in question looks for their tarot card in the book and confirms the passage on the page where they find their card.
6. The chapter of the Abbess is opened. As a spectator reads, the exact same tarot cards were laid out for her.
The book in the audience’s hand is now an unprepared “new translation” of Springinsfeld.
You will receive two books in paperback format (13 x 20 x 1 cm), each with 142 pages, and the detailed instruction booklet (A5, 12 pages). This is a limited edition of 300 copies.
Because this is something different. Because coding principles have been developed to a degree that (as far as I know) has never been before. Because it allows for a whole series of very different effects that can be presented sequentially in a complete act, but also individually.
The books in the Simplicissimus series and their author, Grimmelshausen, are well-known, but hardly anyone has actually read them. This provides the perfect basis for a book review. Grimmelshausen also offers the advantage of an incredible language, peppered with delightful neologisms and outdated spellings, making it difficult to read fluently.
The effects:
1. The spectator looks for the beginning of a paragraph somewhere. This can also be done behind the performer's back. The first word of the paragraph is mentally transcribed letter by letter, without actually saying the letters. The transcribing fails. The word was too banal. The spectator is supposed to concentrate on the first noun in their chosen sentence. And now it works, because the performer already knows it!!! No fishing, no looking, and with a memory code that you'll learn faster than you can read the instructions—it's that simple.
2. Plus, you'll immediately know the entire next sentence. Of course, this requires a bit of memorization or a cheat sheet under a crystal ball...
3. The spectator chooses a longer noun somewhere in the book. Only place names and personal names are excluded. To find this word, you need a quick glance at the spectator's gaze and a single fish-eye, for which the instructions offer you an almost cabaret-worthy solution.
4. They discuss an experiment Springinsfeld is said to have performed as a juggler in the marketplaces. The spectator chooses a page, then flips through the book, blowing like Springinsfeld once did. Then he opens his page again. The writing has disappeared from half the page.
5. A chapter in a book describes how the tarot cards are read to an abbess. You have a spectator shuffle a deck of tarot cards and deal the top five cards to five other spectators. Each one memorizes their own. The shuffler collects the cards again, shuffles them, and places them in any place in the book. Only then do you receive it. With the randomly selected cards memorized by five witnesses, it is unique (and therefore irreplaceable). You take a hearing aid from a tray, use it to listen to the book, name the tarot cards and excerpts of text that these cards are supposed to read to you. Each time, the spectator in question looks for their tarot card in the book and confirms the passage on the page where they find their card.
6. The chapter of the Abbess is opened. As a spectator reads, the exact same tarot cards were laid out for her.
The book in the audience’s hand is now an unprepared “new translation” of Springinsfeld.
You will receive two books in paperback format (13 x 20 x 1 cm), each with 142 pages, and the detailed instruction booklet (A5, 12 pages). This is a limited edition of 300 copies.
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