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This is PRECURSOR XC and is published in May 2004. PRECURSOR is edited by William P. Miesel and is published by unikorn magik. The editorial offices are at 2215 Myrtle Street, Erie. Pennsylvania, 16502-2643 (phone 1-814-454-8802). unikorn magik can be reached through Ed Eckl, "Clutter Cottage," 3 Gregg Street, Beverly, Massachusetts, 01915-2913 (phone 1-978-927-9388). PRECURSOR will be published more than three times a year, and it will be sold for $21.00 (U.S.) for three issues. Outside the United States. Canada, and Mexico, three issues are sent Air Mail for $25.00 (U.S.).

In Bob King's "Another Late Night Session," after a spectator peeks at a card, shuffles, and loses it in the deck, the performer immediately cuts to it.

"Covered Visual Snap Change" is Harvey Rosenthal's handling of Ed Mario's, "The Visual Change." in Hierophant 5-6.

Marty Kane gives us "Linguistricks." a rather strange type of spelling trick. Numbers are spelled as cards are dealt. If the number is an odd number, not only are the number of cards in the spell odd but the spelled cards are also all odd values and vice versa.

At the conclusion of Herb Zarrow's "Out-Jog Packet Switch" in Precursor LXXXVIIl mention is made of a Four Ace routine that Herb performs using this Switch. Here is Herb's handling of that routine. "Touch Aces."

In "Direct Cut." Hideo Kato explains his method of cutting to a crimp in the context of Bert Allerton's "Pump Room Fantasy" from the Stars of Magic.

In the "Pre-Selected Selection," Chris Kosuta uses the effect of Fred Braue's "Pre-Chosen Chosen Card" from The Gen, Vol. 17 #10, February 1962 and combined it with Bob Longe's unloading move from his "Jacks Be Nimble" in 101 Amazing Card Tricks to create a very effective routine.

Robin Robertson offers us "Red - Black Finale," a two-phase routine using the Gilbreath Principle to arrive at a surprising conclusion. The basic idea came from Peter Duffie's routine, "Worlds Apart " published in Inspirations by Jerry Sadowitz & Peter Duffie.

In the last few issues of Precursor, there have been a number of solutions to what has become known as the "Rusduck Problem." In 1981, Tom Craven & Doug Canning contributed a solution of coding one card with four others called, "Bi-Phonery" to Charlie Hudson's "Card Corner" in the Linking Ring Vol. 61 #12. Recently, they went back to work on both the problem and the solution and the results of this second collaboration are here in "Bi-Phonery II." During the late 196(Ts, Walt Rollins and Gene Gordon were great friends. As a result of this friendship. Walt Rollins was constantly traveling to Buffalo doing lectures for Ring 12 in Buffalo. He mostly presented a different lecture each time he came but did not have notes for the majority of these lectures. As a result. I took my own notes. For a trick from the past, here is Walt Rollins' "Torn and Restored Signed Card" from his lecture in Buffalo on September 12, 1966. There was a more elaborate "Torn and Restored Card" in a couple of his formal lecture notes, but for simplicity, this is hard to beat.

My "Twist - Turn - Shake - Rattle and Roll" is a different handling of Bob Farmer's "Twisting, Turning, Extending, and Otherwise Molesting the Aces," that appeared in the Pabular, Vol. 4 #9.

William P. Miesel January 7, 2004

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