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Marlo Without Tears
by Jon Racherbaumer

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Marlo Without Tears by Jon Racherbaumer

From the Foreword:

MARLO WITHOUT TEARS began as a flip notion five years ago. My original plan was to prepare a salmagundi of previously published material by Marlo that was easy to do; to select methods which stressed subtlety and psychological cunning and required no difficult sleights. There is a neat irony here because such material is not associated with Marlo. The prevailing assumption about Marlovian magic focusses on its difficulties, complexities, and textual protraction. The look of his books are intimidating: pages of explanation, dense detail, allusions to other notes (published and unpublished), and diverting sub-texts. The beginner, to his dismay, soon discovers that Marlo is a detailist with an arrant streak to capture everything worth knowing, who has a fervor for absolute thoroughness to cover every contingency, possibility, and methodology. And this textual protraction and plethora causes newcomers, not knowing where to begin, to forestall starting at all; they seek an easier way.

Simplification is an admirable goal, but careful writers are wary of it. Too often it leads to over-simplification, a dreaded intellectual sin, and simplifiers sometimes succeed in stripping away the very elements that make a trick subtle, sophisticated, and beautiful. The challenge of this book is a tough one. It tries to determine how to delimit explanations of complicated methods without sacrificing any substance; to find the imaginary line between "simple" and "simplistic" and between dull plainness and elemental elegance; to translate Marlo's distinct, stream-of-consciousness notes into a form that retains all of his finesse; to arrange his protean material into a format that reveals its scope, diversity, and uniqueness; to supply something for everybody, from the raw recruit to the seasoned veteran. In short, this book is an attempt to allure Marlophobes into his special world of card magic.

Marlo has yet to complete his creative adventure. His complete bibliography is still incomplete. So far he has contributed over 1500 items, over 56 books, and has written at least 3500 pages of text. This does not include reams of unpublished notes and correspondence. All in all, this astonishing prolificacy is extraordinary. We hope that MARLO WITHOUT TEARS will be a satisfactory and useful introduction to Marlo's oeuvre; that new students will become stimulated and enthused.

In another article I wrote: "Marlo's work can be appreciated in part, but only becomes impressively formidable when investigated in toto. Raw recruits find the material too difficult. It must be read over and over until it is individually absorbed and organized so that its complex interrelatedness and developmental scope is understood."

MARLO WITHOUT TEARS is not a primer, but its plain-speaking text will make matters as simple as possible. It may not spell out how and where to draw "the imaginary line between 'simple' and 'simplistic'", but it does provide many exemplary experiments along this line.

Contents:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
DEDICATION
FOREWORD
FRONT ROOM FINESSE

  • The Two-Second Side Steal
  • The 380-Degree Tilt
  • The Bomb Door Card
  • The Marnase Bottom Deal
  • The Hittop Change
  • For Crimp's Sake
NEW-WAVE CARDSTUFF
  • The Money Card
  • Bite The Bullet
  • Non-Saliva Vanish
  • Vernon Mental Force Handling
  • Barroom Poker
  • False Count Spell
PRIME CUTS
  • Double Underpeel Cut
  • The Olram Bottom Slip Cut
  • Combi-Null Cuts
  • From The Mind Of A Cardician
CLASSICS
  • Devilish Miracle Redux
  • Leipzig Would Have Loved This!
  • A Hull Of A Trick
  • Less Cards Marlo
  • Future Classic Double-Cross
BLUFF BUSINESS
  • A Tasty Bluff Sandwich
  • Bluff Ace-X-Ace
  • Bluff Miracle
  • The Real, Honest-To-God Bluff Cut
  • Second-Hand Bluff Cut
LOCUS-POCUS
  • Impossible?
  • Locus-Pocus
GOING MENTAL
  • Nouveau 21-Card Trick
  • Blind Mentalism
  • Tears Without Tears
  • Reading In Triplicate
  • The 27-Card Trick: Streamlined
  • 14-14-14 Prediction
  • Self-Locating Predictions
EASY CHAIR SLEIGHTS
  • New-Approach Propelled Lapping
  • Direct Lapping Move
  • Screened Propelled Lapping
  • Fake Propelled Lapping
MORE CLASSICS
  • Of Course I Can Deal A Good Poker Hand!
  • A Subtile Triumph
  • The Four Eightses Classic
  • Clearly Oil and Water
  • It's Only Us Chickens!
OVER EASY
  • About Facing
  • Subtile Fanover
  • Dressed Up Reverse
CLASSIC PALMS
  • Wrist Turn Palm
  • Turnover Palm
  • Future Classic Palm
MORE FRONT ROOM FINESSE
  • The End Tap Pass
  • Topping Thompson's Pass
  • Convincing Convincer
  • The Roman Pick-up Control
  • The L-C-M Control
  • The C-S Control
CHANGING (EX-CHANGING) OF THE CARDS
  • Natural Deck Switch
  • Fan Swap-out
  • Drop-off Switch
  • Switchout Sidelights
BONUS EFFECTS
  • Olram's Open Prediction
  • The Un-Stapled Cards
  • Latest Observation Test
  • The Smug Departure
  • Tears Without Tears 2
  • Face-up Poker Deals

1st edition 1983, 317 pages; 1st digital edition 2016, PDF 297 pages.
word count: 73374 which is equivalent to 293 standard pages of text



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