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This is a routine based upon Luke Jermay's effect, Touching on Hoy.

ln Luke's originall presentation, three audience members are lined up on stage, facing the

audience, and each participant in turn is asked to think of their own interpretation of

specific thoughts - A city somewhere in the world; The name of a woman that they do

not know; and two simple geometric shapes.

The performer stands and looks into each participant's eyes, then reveals the thoughts of

each participant.

There are no stooges or confederates, and no pre-show work' Effects like this are worth their weight in gold, my friends. The methodology is brilliant.

The only thing missing, for me, was a context for the effect that would fit in with my desire to present my effects as psychological illusion.

After weighing this over in my mind for several months, I hit upon a solution that works very well and that has been time-tested before paying audiences fbr several years now.