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"Your wonderful book is entertaining, informative and inspiring. It is written in the humorous, intellectual style that is so uniquely yours ... You will live on in the history of Magic - forever." - Siegfried and Roy
These routines are taken from Punx's full evening show. This material is not only audience-tested, it is the material that one of the greatest magicians of the twentieth century used to earn a living. It is not a book for beginners. Some of the routines have only partial explanations. This is because most of this material consists only of presentations, many of them for standard tricks. There is also much material on the theory of magical performance.
(Translated from the German by Bill Palmer.)
1st edition 1991, 1st digital edition 2013, 168
Table of Contents
- Translator's Preface to the E-Book
- Punx — the Revolutionary Magician
- Of False and Real Magicians
- Publisher's Preface
- Translator's Introduction
The Actor
- Eternal Longing — a Very Short Biography
- And Why "Punx," Mr. Hanemann?
Prologue
- The Candle Holder from the Temple of Solomon
- Style in Magic: Some Thoughts About a Problem
Part 1 Cagliostro Magic of The Human Mind
- Giant Memory
- Thought Reading
- Billet Reading
- Living and Dead
Part 2 Eulenspiegel Magic of Sleight of Hand and Playing Cards
- The Swelled Head Presentation for the Balloon Penetration
- The PDI 15 Presentation for the Chinese Compass
- Connections Presentation for the Chinese Sticks
- The Mystery of the 4th Dimension
- Unprofitable Art? Presentation for the Coin Manipulator
- The Linking Rings
- The Grand Tour
- Parody Presentation for the Six Card Repeat
- The Hustler
- Sherlock Holmes' Last Case
- The World as Will and Representation
Part 3 Faust Devil — Devil Fantasizing in the Witches' Kitchen
- Devil — Devil Fantasizing in the Witches Kitchen
Part 4 Münchhausen Nonsense, Stories, Escapades
Part 5 Punx Solving the Time Problem
- Stretching a Rope
- Bill in Cigarette
- The Wonder Box
Bonus: Improbable Miracles
- Soap Bubbles in Braunau
- The Clock of Friendship — Almost a Ballad
- Epilogue
- Punx in Print
- Bibliography
- P.S.
word count: 53989 which is equivalent to 215 standard pages of text