Teardrop - Don Theo Iii.pdf

Teardrop A Small Preface: This little e-book is not jazzy or slick in any way. It is, in fact, a small step up from the scribble in my notebook. However, within its pages one may find reputation makers and religion starters. This book is not full of amazing new methods. The routines within utilize methods that you (probably) already know. What you are about to read is an application of these methods that will take your audiences to a whole new level. You should know, before delving in, that my professional/scholastic training is born out of the theatre. I am very theatrical and this is why my audiences often cry a little when I perform. Don't worry about this now, but I will take you there. Let's jump right into it, and the rest of the stuff that belongs in the Preface will flow through the effects that you are about to read.

The Parking Lot Act: This is, ideally, a brilliant publicity stunt. Here is how it looks:

Effect: People surround you in a parking lot of a library or bookstore. A piece of card and pen are passed around. Different spectators make different choices regarding section, row, book and page. A final spectator is asked to write a letter between "A" and "G" and a number between "1" and "8"... Another spectator is invited to go inside the bookstore/library. For sake of example, let's call him Dan. Dan is instructed to follow the directions written on the card and peek at the first word on the page. When Dan comes back out to the parking lot, he speaks the word out loud. Let's pretend the word is "Drown." Dan is then given two shiny quarters. Dan is instructed to take those two quarters to open the newspaper machine. (I am assuming here that your town/city is not asking for the additional quarter, but obviously the proper currency is needed, or a really good hammer.) The final spectator's thoughts (the letter and the number) are read aloud. Let's say we are dealing with "C7"...the spectator opens the newspaper machine, turns to C7 and finds one word circled in red permanent marker. The word is "Drown."

Method: There are many methods that could be used for this. It really is all about the presentation. I will give you mine. It is obviously possible for this to mess up. I have only done it three times, however I have hit bang on each time. Also, keep in mind; this is a great publicity stunt. Go to your bookshelf, grab 13 Steps, and let's make this happen. Got Corinda? Cool. Turn to page 115. The effect is called "My Word." You will essentially switch a finger-palmed billet for the one filled out by your spectators.

Here is how I do it: The billet needs to look like this: Section_______ Shelf_________ Book________ Page________ Letter and number____ I put the billet (folded in fourths) in the clip of a sharpie marker. Toss it to a "parking lot member" and have them fill out the first slot. Tell them they can choose any section, Science Fiction, New Age, or whatever strikes their fancy. Then tell them to fold the paper back up, place it back in the clip of the marker, and give it to anyone else. Anyone else is told to write down a shelf from 1 to 5. 1 is the top-most shelf, 5 is the bottom. That spectator then folds the paper back up, puts it back in the clip to the marker and hands it to someone else. This person is then told to visualize all the books on the shelf, from left to right, and choose a number between 1 and 15. Then write that number down. A final person is chosen to jot down a page number. Then that person refolds the paper and places it back on the clip of the pen. Get the pen back, do the "My Word" switch and when Dan comes back to say the word; give him the proper currency to get into the adjacent newspaper machine. He turns to the "C7" page and the word "Drown” is circled in red permanent ink.

What you need to do: Go to your nearest bookstore and find a section that has only one panel of shelves. I have had good luck with the "humor" and "new age" sections. Find a resonant book. Flip through it to find a really cool word at the top of the page. Find the same word in the newspaper outside of your bookstore, and circle it (this is not as difficult as it reads). In the three times I have done this I’ve used the "display" copy in the window, so that people could still buy papers without messing up my big moment. You need to guide the "Dan" spectator a little bit. In the "shelf" thing, make sure to tell Dan to think of top to bottom. With the book, make sure he knows to go left to right. Obviously there are many other reveals you could use, and mine may be a bit magic-y...you could pull the word out of a zippered pocket in your wallet. You could have the word tattooed on your left shoulder. Go wild, let loose!

Rapport Apport: Effect: Two people think of a card. You pick a card and show it to one of them. You are sure that it is their card. Oops, it's not. It must be the other person's card. Oops, it's not theirs either. Oh well. You turn it over and place it within the closed hands of one of the two people. You apologize for the mistake. You then tell both of your guests to say the name of their card out loud on the count of three. Amazingly, they both say the same card...in tandem... The spectator who is holding your "mistake" card is instructed to open his/her hands and turn the card over. The card is the same one that the two people have just named.

Method: All right, first of all that's a very bare bones description above. I get a good seven minutes out of this. There are many angles you can take in terms of patter with this. If you need help with that then read Synchronicity by Carl Jung. Synchronicity is filled with amazing patter that you can use for many of the effects that you are probably doing now. Plus, it will probably change your life forever. Obviously, you will need to force the same card to both spectators. Here's how I do it: I have one of the two shuffle the deck. I then do a hindu shuffle force on the first spectator. I hold a break at the forced card and then double undercut the forced card to the bottom. I then hindu shuffle force the card again. Once again grab the break. Cut it to the bottom as before and glimpse it. Now hand the deck to the second spectator and tell them to shuffle the deck. When you get the deck back, fan through to get the glimpsed card back on top of the deck. Now, do a double lift and show the card to the person on the left. "This is one I feel good about. I am not sure but I think it's YOURS!” They deny that it is their card. You then say "Oh well, it must be YOUR card!”, as you show it to the other spectator. They deny that it is their card. Turn the double over and place the force card, face down, within the palms of either spectator. Have them say their cards out loud on the count of three. You will get a real “taa-daa” moment when they both say the same card.

Place both of your hands over the spectator's hands (the one who has the card) and turn their hands the other way around. Then have the spectator lift their top hand and the card is face up staring them in the face. This is just a double lift, and shuffle force trick, but it WILL take these two spectators to that place.

Australia Many times I am asked how I got started doing these things and it’s actually a very interesting story. A few years ago, my best friend Jamie was over at my house, and the conversation turned to the unexplained. You know deja vu, unexplained coincidences, and things like that. We probably all have friends that we know so well, that sometimes we can tell them what they are going to say before they say it, right? Well that’s how close the two of us were, so I proposed we test it out. There was a deck of cards sitting on the table. I told Jamie to wait until I got all the way over to the other side of the room, then to take any one of the cards without looking at it, and to place it in her pocket. I concentrated for a minute and then said, “Six of clubs”…she took the card out and sure enough…BAM! Right on the money! It was the six of clubs. She was speechless. A few days later, Jamie was over again, and she said, “Let’s do that thing with the cards again.” Apparently it had been on her mind a lot, and she just assumed it was a lucky guess, so she wanted to see if I could do it again. Well, the deck was sitting on my book shelf so… I walked to the other side of the room, had her place any card sight unseen in her pocket, concentrated, turned to her and said “nine of hearts”…she pulled it out, and sure enough…BAM! Right on the money again! Over the next couple of months, I probably did the same thing a couple of dozen times. Every time it was a different card, and every time…BAM! Right on the money! Now, here’s the thing; there was nothing psychic or supernatural about it. In fact, anyone here can do it. Would you like to know how? This will probably seem ridiculous, but I went out and bought 52 decks of cards. I took the ace of spades from each deck and put them all together so that I had an entire deck of the ace of spades. Then I did the same thing with the two of spades, then the three, and so on, so that I ended up with 52 decks of cards, each deck made up of 52 of the same card. Each time I did the thing for Jamie, I just used a different one of these decks. She never knew any better, and she really believed we were just so in tune with each other that what I was doing was for real.

Then out of nowhere, something big happened. Jamie got offered her dream job. She was so exited, but there was one catch: She would have to move to Melbourne, Australia to take the opportunity she had always dreamed of. I was very happy for her, but very sad at the same time. I mean, could my best friend in the whole world possibly move any farther away? When she left, I told her to call me when she got to Melbourne to let me know she arrived safely. It was three in the morning, she called to say the trip went fine, her new roommate was nice, and the apartment was perfect. Then she said: “Hey, there’s a deck of cards here on the kitchen counter, let’s try it…” Now… The smart thing would have been for me to make up some excuse, like, “Right now as we speak, it’s tomorrow in Australia.” I should have said, “Well, I don’t think it would work…I mean its tomorrow there, and I can’t tell the future.” That’s what I should have said, but did I? No. Instead, I said, “Okay, pull a card out of there without looking at it.” I concentrated for a minute and said, “three of spades”, just because that’s the card that came to mind. And guess what? That’s right…BAM! Right on the money! She was amazed. But I was even more amazed then she was. I mean, to her, I was just doing that crazy card thing I always do, to me, I didn’t really know what to think! A couple of days later, Jamie calls me up and says, “I’ve been telling my roommate about the three of spades and she doesn’t believe me, will you do it for her?” Now, I should have said…but did I? No. Instead I said “Put her on the phone”, and then “Take a card out, don’t look at it.” And I tried to do exactly what I did with Jamie…I remembered before that I just said the card that flashed in my mind. So I tried to clear all of my other thoughts, and it happened…very, very briefly I saw an image of a red queen. I didn’t know which one, but I knew it was red and I knew it was a queen…instead of guessing hearts or diamonds, I just said, “That’s a red queen you’ve got there, isn’t it?” Guess what? That’s right…BAM! Right on the money. Even though I had done it before, I was absolutely shocked. It obviously wasn’t just a coincidence, like I thought, and that event right there turned my whole world inside out and upside down. It completely changed the way I looked at what we are actually capable of doing.

I’d like to try to re-create that experience for you tonight, would that be all right? Now obviously, if I sent one of you to Australia, it would make our time here together a little longer than we planned, so let’s just try it right here in this room…what is your name, mam? You know what, you remind me just a little bit of my friend Jamie, and would you help me with this? Now it’s important that you follow my instructions to the letter, so that way, there’s no way I can cheat, okay? At this point “Two in the Pocket” by Richard Osterlind, utilizing the BCS is performed. This routine was popularized by Chan Canasta. You need to have a deck of cards in a cyclical stack. Si Stebbins or Eight Kings would work, but I like the Osterlind stack because you can fan the cards out in front of your spectator to show them that, unlike the “Jamie Decks”, all of these cards are different. You know where it goes from there. They cut the deck as many times as they like, then remove the top two cards and place them in their front two pockets. You take the deck back and case it. Get your peek, and then do your reveal. I like to miss the suit of the second card. But that’s just me. Thank you so much for your help (to volunteer) and please accept this round of applause as a token of my appreciation. Let’s give her a hand. And I would like to say a very heart felt thank you to all of you for taking this journey with me. You see, a couple of years ago, I got a phone call from Australia. Just when I thought that Jamie couldn’t ever be farther away, I learned that she had been killed in an automobile accident. And every time I am called upon to create a memorable experience for people, I tell that story and recreate that moment as my way of keeping her alive. Well, now that I’ve cheered us all up… You know, that was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to deal with, and I believe there is a positive side to everything. When you lose someone close to you, it teaches you a vital lesson. Our most important commodity in life is time. The time we spend with those we love is more valuable than anything else in the world, and it’s something we should never take for granted…. Just to let my entertainer friends know, every word of what you have read regarding the “Australia” monologue is true.

Time is one of the most fascinating things to think about…as the planets turn and the stars shift day after day, month after month and century after century; we have developed a way of pinpointing each and every second… A few years ago, I visited Jamaica, which is an absolute paradise…and what’s interesting is they are completely different when it comes to time…They are so laid back…nobody is really on a schedule and it’s as though time flows just as freely as the breeze thru the Jamaican palms…then I flew back into the states by way of the Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, one of the busiest airports, one of the biggest cities in the whole world…and it was a total culture shock…everybody was in such a hurry! Let’s try something out utilizing the magic of time, shall we?

The PCT Clock: My favorite use of Osterlind’s amazing “Perfected Center Tear” involves a watch theme. This could be done with any peek. Use a wallet, Acidus Novus, Obsidian Oblique or whatever else you like. As with any peek or tear methods, one should never just reveal the information peeked. In using a name or place, a bit of cold reading (name) or remote viewing (place) can go a long way. One of my favorite (impromptu) things to do, for some time now, is to draw an alarm clock on a piece of (PCT) paper. It's a small rectangular box with the two dots in the middle. (I was going to use the term "colon", but that would just be a set up for silly jokes.) I then say to the spectator, "of course something important is missing from the alarm clock isn't it?” at which time they almost always say, "The time." I respond, "Well maybe but the important thing missing is the snooze button." Then I draw a little button on top of the alarm clock (Nice little chuckle here). I then have the spectator write a time in the alarm clock while my head is turned, and they (re)fold up the paper. I take it back, and rip it into pieces, and place it into the hand of their choice. I then have them hold their arm straight out with the pieces clenched in their fist. I have them imagine they are standing in the center of a huge clock, and that their arm resembles the hand of a watch. I enclose their outstretched fist in my hand, and walk them around in a circle; having them focus on just the hour. I point out to them where 12, 6, 3 and 9 o'clock are, and instruct them to not give anything away physically as I count down the hours and pause at certain places on the human clock.

I repeat the motions as they think of the minutes. Then I jot something down. I ask the time, and then show what I have written. I am always off by one minute.

Card through Person: Thanks (very special ones) to a friend, and mentor of mine, Mr. Harry Lorayne. Many years ago I picked up a book called Close Up Card Magic from him. In the book was a really cool effect called "Card Thru Table." The trick utilized a really neat subtle move by the amazing Johnny Benzais. I took it a little further. Now understand this...I did this once at a private party as a joke. Thing was, it went over SO well that I realized I had a little worker on my hands.

Effect: A card is freely selected and signed, from a deck shuffled by a spectator/audience member/victim/guest. The card is then shuffled back into the deck. Another spectator/audience member/victim/guest is pulled from the audience. They are placed in a prone position between two chairs. The head/upper back on one chair, and legs on another chair. The deck of cards (after being shuffled one more time by anybody in the room) is placed on their stomach. The spectator who chose the card is invited to push down on the deck on the other spectator's stomach. Spectator number 1 has one hand rested on top of the deck of cards on the laid out spectator's stomach, and their other hand beneath the second spectator's back. Once the push is done, there is a count of three. At the count of three, the person with the hands above and below feels a very eerie feeling...a single card falls onto their awaiting open palm. Guess what card it is?

Method: If you are familiar with the Lorayne material then you will probably have figured this out by now. If not, it's okay. Mr. Lorayne said I could tell you. First off, let me say that this is not something you would want to do on stage for obvious reasons. This is a worker that you want to use when you are doing strolling, or hospitality suites, or any venue where you are surrounded. But as my friend M. Stewart says....that's a good thing. Pick out a patient "volunteer", as you are going to "hypnotize" them for a few minutes. I have many friends that can induct people very quickly. I also have

many friends that are really into just faking it. Either way, you want someone who can follow directions well. I tend to use classic inductions, but those not well versed in hypnotism could still use this. If you are not up on the hypnosis texts, no problem; just tell your first spectator to close their eyes and imagine that they are stiff as a board. I use folding chairs when I do this, but I imagine lounge chairs, or several other variants would work. Here's the key thing: you want the 2 chairs to be close enough to give your prone spectator comfort, yet far enough away to give yourself the ability to do the "dirty work." Okay, your first spectator freely chooses a card from a deck that they have shuffled. Get that card back to the top of the deck and set it aside for a moment. Get spectator number two involved...let's call her Debbie. Get her prone on the chairs. Now here's what is going to happen: pick the deck back up. Do a one handed top palm. You now have the top card (chosen and signed) in your mitt. Place the rest of the deck on Debbie's stomach and invite spectator number 2 (hell, let's use Dan again; after all he did a good job for us last time.) Anyhow, Dan is invited to place his hand below Deb's back.... Here's what you are doing in the process: You have the important card palmed. You are going to take that card below Deb's back and plant it, using your thumb, in the small of her back, directly underneath where the deck lies. Dan’s hand is invited below Deb’s back, and placed palm up in your palm up hand. This eliminates the idea that you have a card under Deb’s back. Dan’s other hand presses down on the deck on Debbie's stomach (gently), and on the count of three you release the hold with your thumb and a single card falls into Dan's other hand....of course it is the signed and selected card. After reading this, it should be obvious why it is a party effect, and not a stage thing. The moment is really only big for those involved and those surrounding you. Make it clear to your prone volunteer, Debbie, that she is going to feel something on her stomach, and going through her body, on the top and below her body...(the below is the thumb you have planted) The thumb planted in the back of Deb is totally covered because everyone else is standing all around you, and you are kneeled down with your hand below Debbie. Also, Dan covers you for those who are curious across from you. The cover is an idea from the amazing stage director Anne Bogart. She teaches an unbelievable system that she refers to as "Viewpoints." One of the seven viewpoints is "Levels", which predicates the staging of this effect, and here's something that predicates the Teardrop....

A Small Break: I had the wonderful privilege of studying theatre at the Institute where Anne Bogart teaches in Saratoga Springs, NY. It was a two pronged approach. Anne would teach amazing acting techniques. Let me give you an example: often she would be directing a scene (from the back of the house) and she would call for us to all stop. She would then start approaching the stage to give her direction(s). She admitted to the fact that when she called the stop, she had no idea what her instructions would be. She would figure it out on that walk from the back of the house to the stage. The second tier of the training was done by Tadashi Suzuki. While Mrs. Bogart's training was psychologically draining, Mr. Suzuki's training was damned sadistic. Suzuki's training was physical madness. There were two big buckets on either side of the room for us to vomit in, if needed. And needed it was, for many of us. But you know what? I can't put a price tag on that experience.

The Teardrop: This is the most valuable thing I have to share with the mentalist/magician community. Imagine you have just read someone's mind. They have never experienced anything like this before. They look at you and a single tear drops out of your eye and rolls down your cheek. I promise you that 9 out of 10 times you will get the same response from whomever you are in front of. I am about to teach you how to "cry on cue", or in other words, drop that very special tear whenever you want to. More importantly than the how, is the why. Why would you want to cry in front of your audience? After all, you want to present yourself as a psychological master. I want you to think of Uri Geller for a moment. Some of you may like him, some of you may not. But he captured the world in the 70's. Why? Because he made you believe. He seemed just as, if not more, amazed than his subjects. Those of you, who have seen me work, know that my catch phrase is, "I am just as amazed as you are." As fun as that sentence is to deliver, it was always done tongue in cheek. Not too long ago I realized that if I could make people believe it then it would take my performances to another level. Think about it. Put yourself in your audience member's shoes. You have just shared an intimate moment with him or her. You have just read their mind. You have just connected with him or her on a level that should not even be possible. A single tear drops. The same tear drops from whomever you are standing in front of. There is no possible phrase to describe that level of rapport. Not only will your participant drop a tear as well, they will never forget the experience for the rest of their life.

Method: All right, buckle your seatbelt. Hopefully, I sold you well enough on why to cry that you will want to put the effort into this. I will tell you right now that it's not

going to be fun. But the payback is enormous. Read the above words if you need to. Pump yourself up. Do you know much about sword swallowers? We all have a "gag reflex." Go ahead and get the dirty jokes out of your head. We are about to head into serious territory. You need a fresh mind and a willing soul to make this happen. Sword swallowers tickle their "gag reflex" over and over until it does not react anymore. That's what you are going to do with your tear reflex. Bear with me; this will hurt the first few times. I want you to think of a really sad moment in your past. Maybe it's a lost love. Maybe it's the death of a friend, loved one, or relative. Maybe you have lived an unsurpassed life and you have no negative memories...well there is what we call "Tears of Joy"...I get them when I see a good opera, or read a good book... Anyhow, take yourself to that place. Let the tears flow. Submerse yourself in the memory, and allow yourself to swirl into it. Cry. That's important. Come back to the book when you are done. Good to see you back. Forgot to mention, hide any firearms from yourself when you do the practice. I hope you made it through it ok. Now go back to that place once a day for a week. I taught myself how to "cry on cue" when I was playing George in Our Town in college. The role required George to cry big time at the end of a very important scene. My director taught me how to fake it, but that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted to sell the illusion. I have been required to cry on cue in many shows since. Luckily, since I broke the "Tear Reflex Barrier" at an early age it has not been an issue for me since. Break your tear reflex and then you won't have to think about that sad moment. You will just be able to read a mind and then look your friend right in the eyes. You will drop a tear…so will they. Your life; their life; will never be the same.

The Pirate Séance Special thanks to Jim Callahan for inspiration for this one: I use a pirate in my séance routine, because pirates are really big where I live. I live on an island that has had eight flags flown above it. One of those was a Mexican flag that the pirate Luis Aury flew. Luis was the leader of the pirate movement on my island. By the way, it is called Amelia Island. Luis died by being thrown from a horse at the tender age of 33 on my birthday. In addition to the resplendent pirate history, we also host an amazing women's tennis tournament called the Bausch and Lomb Championships. Last year my girlfriend (I wish) Tatiana Golovin won. I volunteer each year. It is a cool way to give back to the community and see some amazing free tennis at the same time. This does have some poignancy, as Mr. Callahan, the inspiration for this routine, lives very close to Kiawah Island. On that island is the women's tennis tourney that happens right after the Bausch and Lomb, and the Kiawah tournament is big points for the lady tennis stars. Sorry for all the rambling, let us get back to the pirates.

Effect: You are on stage...you distribute different colored 3x5 cards to members of the audience. You tell a story about the infamous pirate Luis Aury...about a murder he was "forced" to commit. Everyone in the audience is asked to close their eyes and take the journey. A little bit of fake mass hypnosis goes a long way here. The ones with pink cards will write down a time. The ones with blue cards will write down a place. Those with yellow cards are instructed to write down a murder weapon. They (the audience members) then fold their cards into fourths, and deposit them in a box. A single audience member is chosen to remove one of each color card from the box.

The pink card says "3:14" The blue card says "Lighthouse." The yellow card says "Knife." You then go to your easel, where a folded up piece of paper has been on display the entire time. As you unfold it, it tells this story: "Mr. Aury was deep in debt to a man who shall remain unnamed.” (Unfold the next crease). “At around 3:00 he approached him to remove him from the earth.” (Unfold the next crease). “Right outside the Lighthouse,” (Next crease) “He stabbed a man with a knife." I purposely miss a prediction effect earlier in my stage show, so that I can unfold the next crease to say: "Sorry I missed it earlier, but I knew you would think of Orlando"

Method: I doubt I have to teach you how to miss a prediction. As for the rest, go back to your bookshelf and pick up your Annemann's Practical Mental Effects. It's the red one. Turn to page 26 and check out the O.M. billet switching box. Now, it is not difficult to adapt this to a modern day container. Bob Cassidy (Bob is my uncle) has developed a really cool one with a cigar box in his book, Tricks, Dreams and Devices. So basically it does not matter what your specs write down, because they will be switched out for the proper billets to fit your prediction.

Of course, one does not need to use a pirate with this, any dead soul would work. When Jim Callahan was advising me on how to pull off a pirate séance, it was thundering and lightning and rain storming down all around me as I talked to him on the phone outside of my house. There was true electricity beaming all around. With the right presentation, you too can produce that same level of electricity for your audience.

Special Thanks: Jim Callahan Jerome Finley Paul Vigil Mick Ayres Harry Lorayne Sean Waters Nathan Pain Richard Osterlind Many others

Suggestions for material needed to perform the above: The Breakthrough Card System by Richard Osterlind Practical Mental Effects and/or Practical Mental Magic by Theodore Annemann Tricks, Dreams and Devices by Bob Cassidy 13 Steps to Mentalism by Tony Corinda The Perfected Center Tear by Richard Osterlind

Encore…The Cat’s Eye: There is an amazing book written by Rupert Sheldrake entitled, Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals. The book is filled with tales of psychic animals. This routine will teach you how to read the mind of a pet. I usually do this at private parties when a pet is in the house. It could be any type of animal.

Effect: A spectator draws a picture on a pad, tears it off, and places it in their pocket. They are instructed to go into another room and take their (or the hostesses) pet. Here’s a fun line. Tell them to go into another room with their drawing and as they start to leave tell them “And your little dog too!” Before they dispatch, give them these instructions: “Take the cat (dog, parrot, ferret, goldfish or whatever else you are dealing with) into the other room and remove the drawing from your pocket. Show it to fluffy there. Make sure they make eye contact with the picture, then place it back in your pocket and bring the little fella back out to me.” While they are doing this, you can share a story or two with the rest of those around you about the psychic abilities of pets. Check out the weird wild stuff in the Sheldrake book if you need to. When the spectator returns with pet in tow, you pick up the pet and stare deeply into its eyes. After a few minutes you reproduce the drawing on the paper that you never even touched.

Method: You will need an impression pad. My current weapon of choice is the Son of Mindscan pads available at www.outlaw-effects.com. John Riggs also has some wonderful products along this line, namely the Beautiful Butterfly. Either way, you need an impression pad that has instant read capabilities.

Have the spectator draw the picture. Get your peek by taking the next sheet off, reading the back to demonstrate how to show the animal the drawing. The rest is just presentation. I really milk this one. Especially, if the pet is a cow. Sorry, that was horrible. Anyhow, the moment when you are staring in the animal’s eyes “picking up” the image should last no less than a minute and a half. Stone…cold…silence. People will laugh. I mean, there is no way you are really doing this…right? Then you do. I have always felt drawing duplications to be a tad bit unbelievable and therefore suggestive of some sort of trickery. This gives your audience a reason. Try it out, you will love it. I was not going to include this but I get giddy with glee imagining the rest of my friends reading the cat’s eye. Well that’s it. If you have any questions about anything in this note (e) book then feel free to call me at 904-206-0692 or email at [email protected] Now get out there and drop some tears! Don Theo III