Pit Hartling – Card Fictions

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Imagine being able to:

• sense the colors of playing cards through a solid table.
• stack four Poker hands in under ten seconds.
• kick any chosen number of cards off a deck.
• bring order to chaos.
• magically reposition cards at will.
• transpose a card from a spectator’s hands to beneath their watch.
• instantly memorize the sequence of a shuffled deck.

This book won’t teach you to achieve these feats, as many are impossible. However, we can create the illusion of these impossibilities for our spectators through what we call Card Fictions.

It’s essential to understand that evoking a sense of impossibility doesn’t necessitate performing the impossible. Instead, it requires collaboration. A fiction forms in the mind of the spectator, who, with their remarkable perception, plays a vital role in this process. As performers, we simply provide the right stimuli and then allow our audience to effortlessly construct their own magical experiences.