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.Fig.1.Fig.1.135 STEP XVIII Press your left fingertips flat against the exposed surface of thecard above the ace on the right side of the deck.STEPXIX Handle the ace and the card above it as one unit by sliding the aceto the right, squaring it with the deck, while the card above the ace slides to theright.This side-jogged card on the right will be concealed by your right fingers.Fig.2 & 3.136 STEP XX Obtain a left little finger break above the side-jogged card bypressing down on it with your left little finger as you square the side-jogged cardto the left.STEP XXI Start dealing out the deck by spreading the top four face-up cardsinto your right fingers.Drop the four card spread face up onto the other tabledcards.STEP XXII Grasp the deck from above by its ends with your right fingers asyour left fingers slide the top card and the double from the bottom off the deck tothe left at the same time.In a continuous action, your left fingers slide two moresingle cards off the face of the pack onto the "two" left hand cards.Slide this fourcard spread face up under the tabled cards to move the pile closer to you.STEP XXIII Deal some more single cards off the top of the deck with yourright hand, onto the tabled pile.STEP XXIV Take half the deck in each hand and deal cards face up onto thetabled pile with both hands.STEP XXV When you're down to the last few cards in both hands.turn yourhands palm down as your fingers fan out the face-down cards the reversed cardis gone.The slick ace has slipped out again.Fig.4.Fig.4.137 STEP XXVI Square the cards.Hold the face-up deck in left hand dealingposition and grasp the deck from above by its ends with your right fingers.STEP XXVII Pull down on the bottom card with your left little finger andretain the break with your right thumb.STEP XXVIII Swivel the top half of the deck with your right first finger intoyour left hand.STEP XXIX Comment about the Parkay law of Opposites."You say face up.Isay face down." As you say "down" hold the right hand half directly over the lefthand half and unload the card above the break onto the back of the right hand halfundercover of a "paint brush" action.The face-up card on the left hand halfappears to have suddenly turned face down.STEP XXX Out-jog the face-down card as the right hand half is placed ontothe left hand half leaving the face-down card out-jogged in the center of thepack.Fig.5.138 STEP XXXI Continue your lines "You say butter I say 'Parkay.'" On"Parkay" spread the deck face down to reveal the face-up Parkay ace.Remove theace and use it to flip the spread face-up as you say, "that's right the high pricespread." proving that there's more than one way to butter up an audience.Fig.6.Official Notice of Appreciation:For Dana Betz!.for eliminating a move that would have caused critics to say unkind thingsabout me.139 The Seduction:You're sick and tired of people saying, "Is that a deck in your pocket or are youjust happy to see me?" So this time you left your fifty two little entertainers athome.But now you're romantic future depends upon you wowing the waitresswith your wonderfulness.What do you do? You have two choices.Accidentallydrop a wad of hundred dollar bills on her shoe to convince her of your self-worth Or cause a borrowed coin and the sweet stuff in a sugar packet to spectacularlychange places.Of course, the wad of bills maneuver would be your first choice.Preparation:Sneak a sugar packet off the table and use a fork to tear a slit alongone of the packet's long sides near the top.Fig.1.Fold the portion of packet that'sabove the slit over onto the slit.Put the prepared packet into a left hand pocket.STEP I Finger palm the prepared packet in your left hand so that the foldedslit side is against the fingers the slit pointing toward the "little finger side" ofyour hand.The fold keeps the sugar from spilling out give or take a fewgranules.140 Fig.1.STEP II Borrow a bill from the audience and place it directly onto the finger-palmed sugar packet so that the left end of the bill goes into the crotch of your leftthumb.STEP III Grip the packet and the bill with your right thumb from belowagainst the packet, and your right first finger on top of the bill.Lift the bill alongwith the packet concealed beneath it so that the bill faces the audience.The packetshould now be near the upper left corner of the bill with the folded part of thepacket on top facing toward you.STEP IV Grasp the left end of the bill, along with the sugar packet, with yourleft fingers.Fold the bill in half by placing the back of your right thumb againstthe outer right side of the bill, then using your thumb to push that end of the billover onto the left side of the bill so that the folded right side of the bill ends upheld between your right thumb and finger.Fig.2 & 3.141 The sugar packet and your left thumb are now sandwiched inside the folded bill.Hold the sugar packet in position with pressure from your right thumb and fingerswhile your left thumb moves out of the bill by sliding up.On the way up yourthumb slides up under the sugar packet's fold automatically unfolding it.Transfer the bill covered sugar to your left hand by grasping the bill's left endstogether between your left thumb and fingers.Left finger pressure holds the sugarpacket in place.STEP V Use your right fingers to fold the bottom half inch of the bill up on theaudience side of the bill to seal off the bill's bottom edge.Fig.4.STEP VI Borrow a nickel or a quarter from a spectator and have her rememberthe coin's date before handing it to you.While this action is taking place, tilt the billto the left, to cause some of the sugar to slide to the left of the packet leaving aspace at the right of the packet for the coin.142 STEP VII Take the coin with your right fingers and place it into the bill,directly into the sugar packet through its slit in the space left by the shiftedsugar.STEP VIII Transfer the bill to your right hand by clipping the right side of thebill's bottom flap between your first and second finger.The right thumb goes tothe back of the bill so that the packet is held secure through the bill between theright thumb and first finger.STEP IX Your left hand takes seven or eight sugar packets out from theircontainer and drops them on the table to your left.Direct a spectator to pick upone of the packets and place it on the palm of your left hand.STEP X Adjust the left hand sugar packet with your left fingers so that one ofthe packet's ends can be thumb clipped.STEP XI Make the following speech if you're so inclined: "To make sleight-of-hand improbable I've insulated the coin in a dollar bill.The sugar is alreadyprotected by the package around it.At this point it would be difficult to get to thecoin and impossible to get to the sugar.But if it were possible to secretly palmthousands of individual grains of sugar." Then close your left hand over itspacket.STEP XII Tilt the bill and pour out the sugar while pressure from yourright thumb and first finger keeps the coin inside.A slight rubbing motion of theright thumb and first finger will help the sugar pour.Do not attempt to get all of the sugar to pour out of the packet.The audienceonly has to see one good shot of the sugar pouring out of the bill to get the effect.Fig.5.Fig.5.143 STEP XIII Open your left hand to show a flash of its packet, then perform aHan Ping Chen maneuverbythumb clipping the left end of the packet as you turnyour left hand down to apparently place its packet onto the table.As your lefthand turns palm down, relax the pressure from your right thumb and first fingerso that the bill is held only by the fold clipped between your right first and secondfinger.Fig.6 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]