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GeniiTHE CONJURORS’ MAGAZINE

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FEATURES46 Real Secrets Interview by Richard Kaufman60 Women of Magic at The Magic Castle by Lisa Cousins68 In The Elephant Room by Prakash Puru76 Pick a Card, Not Any Card by Jay A. Olson

COLUMNS10 Genii Speaks by Richard Kaufman12 On the Slant by Jon Racherbaumer14 Now Performing 18 The Chamber of Secrets The Wine and Water Transposition by John Gaughan20 Lost Horizons Lexicontact by Max Maven24 Conjuring Mr. Morritt Planted Roses by Jim Steinmeyer30 Lodestones Procrastination Postponed by Tom Stone36 Magicana by David Acer 36 Pinoterae by Randy Atha 38 The Giving Finger by Bill Duncan 40 Think of One by Allan Zola Kronzek

LIGHT FROM THE LAMP78 Tricks Reviewed by Danny Orleans 78 SloMotion by Joe Litvinchuk 78 iLogo by Craig Squires 78 Dean’s Beads by Dean Dill 79 Audio Transpo by Daryl 80 Red Bull with a Twist by Robert Baxt 80 Phantom Knife by Richard Osterlind 81 Knock ‘Em Dead II by Peter Nardi 81 “Threesome” by Jason Dean 81 Depicting Thoughts Set by Rainer Mees and Thomas Heine

82 Videos Reviewed by Joe M. Turner 82 Building Your Own Illusions by Gerry Frenette 83 The Pageboy Speaks by Patrick Page 83 Fuze by Jeff Prace 84 Subterfuge Magic System 2.0 by Kenneth Sanders

85 Books Reviewed by Eric Mead 85 Thinking the Impossible by Ramón Riobóo 85 Charles Dickens: Conjurer, Mesmerist and Showman by Trevor Dawson 86 Performing Magic by Tony Middleton

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