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PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION XI

PREFACE XIII

PART ONE: DISILLUSIONMENT 3

PART TWO: MAGIC 21

A Coin Trick 23
A Card Trick 29
Perception is Everything 33
Tricks with Suggestion 42
The Pendulum 48
Muscle-reading 5 1

PART THRI<~I<~: MEMORY 57

Starting Points 62
The Linking System 67
Uses of the Linking System 75
The Loci System 78
Memory Palaces 82
The Peg System 89
Remembering Long Numbers 96