The William W. Larsen Memorial Library

This is Absolutely Real

Author/Editor: Bleasdale, Thom

Foreword (Jeff McBride)
A Few Words from Kenton Knepper
Introduction

Participant Selection and the Performance of Effects. And Comedy. And Why We do Magic. And Unnecessarily Long Essay Titles With Awful Punctuation (essay)

CLOSE-UP PIECES
Russian Roulette
Eight Girls (Lost Love)
Five Card ESP Test
The Close-Up Premonition Induction
Identity
The Voodoo Doll
Patter vs. Scripting (essay)
The TB Impression Pad

STAGE PIECES
Blank Image
Don’t Staple Your Head
Premonition Induction
Subconscious Impression – Chaos Theory
Labyrinth
Protection
We Went Looking For Those Dreams
Lipgloss Hyperballad
Music 3.0

REAL PIECES
Real Pieces Foreword
The Number Game
Car
The (Non) Bending Wine Glass
Force Choke

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED
The Imaginary Gallery (essay)
Perform Art (essay)
Thoughts on Arranging Shows (essay)
3SP
Triple Thought
The Light-Flame Trilogy (TLFT)
TLFT: Lightwish
TLFT: Blessings of Light
TLFT: Think Fire
TLFT: Flaming Balloon Surprise (Banachek)
TLFT: Parallel (Sean Waters)

ADDITIONAL EFFECTS
Free – 3 – T.o.O
The Center Tear (essay)
Thoughts on The Trick That Cannot Be Explained
My ESP Tattoo Routine
Totally Free Will

Afterword
Acknowledgments