Resurrecting The Pitch Book
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Resurrecting The Pitch Book

The books themselves are designed very curiously, with just enough valuable information to fulfill their stated purpose but always hinting, teasing and pitching further. Virtually every page of every single chapter leads to a product or service.

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Overcoming The Monster
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Overcoming The Monster

In the autumn of 1962, nearly 5000 years after the story of Gilgamesh was placed in the library at Niniveh, a period encompassing almost the whole of recorded human history, a fashionable crowd converged on Leicester Square in London for the premiere of a new film.

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Why We Tell Stories
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Why We Tell Stories

At any given moment, all over the world, hundreds of millions of people will be engaged in what is one of the most familiar of all forms of human activity. In one way or another they will have their attention focused on one of those strange sequences of mental images which we call a story.

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The Nature of Magic
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The Nature of Magic

If my analysis of the magician's logic is correct, its two great principles turn out to be merely two different misapplications of the association of ideas.

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The Magical Atmosphere
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The Magical Atmosphere

They were deeply captivated, surrounding him squashed in like sardines trying to get a good view of the improvised stage. There was a special thing floating in the air, it was as if that night at that very place nothing were impossible.

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Secrets Were His Life
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Secrets Were His Life

William Robinson would continue to acquire, develop, and shuttle secrets to and fro when the price was right. This was a man who knew magic as well as anyone and as his value grew so did his reputation for duplicity.

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Magic Is The Art of Transformation
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Magic Is The Art of Transformation

He was revived in a field hospital and suffered from severe shell shock. During his recovery he would ask for playing cards and practiced non-stop. Thinking he was mentally ill for wearing gloves and repeating the same manipulations with cards all day the doctors had him incarcerated in a mental hospital in Southhampton, England.

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The Bird With One Wing
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The Bird With One Wing

Instead of feeling sorry for himself, he started to push himself, trying to come back to life, feeling the fire that flows through the veins of men who want to push beyond their own limitations. A fire that nothing and no one can extinguish. Proof that life is stronger than death and that love is stronger than pain.

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The Heart Of Magic
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The Heart Of Magic

The magic just happened. You never saw any hand flexing, any hand positioning, or any other visible motion to suggest sleight of hand. This man was on. It was his night. He treated all of us to an experience of truly real magic.

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What Is The Story?
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What Is The Story?

Max Malini came to America over a hundred years ago with nothing. He decides that in order to become successful he has to find really powerful people so that he can blow their minds.

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What is Hidden Leaves?
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What is Hidden Leaves?

I wanted to design a deck that was mysterious and filled with secrets, secrets that had to be earned through time, practice, and study. The name of the deck itself eludes to this. Throughout history a sheet a paper was referred to as a leaf of paper.

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