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POST OFFICE BOX 144 •
FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY
07728
CODEX-X
copyright 1979 by
Al Mann Exclusives
FOREWORD
Codex-X is the final-port-of-call of an odyssey
that has taken the author through many years of study
and planning. Codex-X was primarily inspired by the
late Richard Himber's many book tests and C. L.
Boarde's monumental work "Maily Mental" Vol II on
book tests. It was secondarily inspired by the men-
talist's love for the mystery of the book test that
was popularized by Annemann in his Jinx and by
Burling Hull in his writings.
The first notes were penciled in Istanbul, Turkey
in 1961. The origianl concept wittten in poetry was
called "Incunabula." The name was changed to Codex-X
for no important reason and the poetry was discarded
due to the fact that forcing poems do not read any
too good.
Many thanks to my Manhattan friend, Mr. H. Penn
for introducing me to all the type setters, printers
and book binders in New York City, who helped bring
the pleasant odyssey to its final resting place in-
side the covers of the X-Tomes.
Gentlemen, please enjoy it.
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CODEX-X
copyright by Al Mann Exclusives
1979
Gentlemen, since you have paid a good price for this effect,
I will not waste your time with verbiage and get down to the
business of 'miracles.'
THE "TITLE" PREDICTION
EFFECT, Performer predicts what book will be freely chosen
from a shelf of books by stating the Title and Author of the
book plus a word freely chosen by a spectator! The prediction
is sealed in an envelope and given to a spectator before the
show or it can be printed in a newspaper ad.
SECRET, Please examine the three hard bound books you have
received. We will refer to these as the X-Tomes.
All three books have the same title and author on the front
cover but are of different size, thickness and color AND they
have a different number printed on the spine! It is these num-
bers
(1,
5
and
9)
that enables the performer to give the spec-
tator a free choice of any book on the shelf AND the spectator
can count either from right to left or left to right on the
shelf!
Book
1
is the thin and tall tan-color book
Book
5
is the blue book
Book 9 is the red book.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
THE BASIC FORCE, Here is
X
X
X
the force in its simplest
dress. Please refer to Fig.
1.
It represents a shelf of books
1
9
5
with nine books on it.
The X-Tomes are marked X
2
6 5
4
7
9
8
and are in position
3, 6
and
Fig. 1
8 counting from left to right.
The numbers on the spine of the
X-Tomes can be placed in any of
the three positions, their order does not matter. The other six
books on the shelf can be
any
books such as the best sellers"
or famous books like Sherlock Holmes, Poe, etc. There should
be other books with numbers on the spine. But these numbers must
be greater than nine.
1
2
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THE BASIC FORCE •••••••. cont.
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A spectator is asked to callout
any
number from 1 to
9.
If he calls out numbers 1,
S
or
9,
he is directed to pick that
book off the shelf as that is the only book with that number on
the spinel
If he calls out numbers
J, 6
or 8 he is directed to count to
his book from left to right.
If he calls out numbers 2,
4
or
7,
he is directed to count
from right to leftl
After the book is taken from the shelf, performer points out
that all the other books have different titles and authors and
takes some from the shelf to show them.
That, Gentlemen is the
we must not act so naive.
choice of any number from
either from right to left
basic force BUT as master mentalists
We want to give the spectator a free
1 to
9
and also a choice of counting
or left to rightl So we come to the-
MASTER FORCE, Let us assume that in Fig. 1 the books have
their spines facing the audience. For the Master Force we will
turn the books around so that the spines are out of sight. For
that you may simply use two light weight book ends or a small
portable book shelf that can be easily turned around, but one
that will not hide the numbers on the spine when shown.
Let Fig. 2 represent
the shelf of books with
their spines facing away
from the audience. The X-
Tomes are now in reverse
order. However if we turn
the shelf around, the shelf
will look like in Fig. 1.
The numbers on the top
and bottom of the shelve
are imaginary for our own
information.
1
2
4
X
S
6
7
8
X
1
9
x
9
y
~
S
7
6
S
4
2
1
Fig. 2
THE PRESENTATION, Porformer calls attention to a shelf of
books behind him and states that he is going to try a most unique
test, one that is seldom tried. He then passes out a sealed en-
velope for someone to hold. He next asks anyone in the audience
to callout any number from 1 to
9.
He also points out that the
titles on the books are out
ot
sight because he does not want
the number chosen due to the title.
If spectator calls out numbers 1,
S
or
9,
the shelf is simply
turned around and the spectator is told to choose the book with
the chosen number on the spine. If any other number is called,
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THE MASTER FORCE ..•••.• cont.
performer states, "Now that you have chosen the number, you
have a choice of counting either from left to right or from
right to left.
Say that the spectator chose to count from left to right,
and that he chose numbers 2,
4
or
7.
Performer simply directs
the spectator to count from left to right without turning the
book shelf around. After the book is chosen ( a force tome)
performer turns the shelf around to show that the other books
have other titles and authors, etc.
If the number chosen was
3, 6
or 8 and the spectator must
count from left to right, THE BOOK SHELF MUST BE TURNED AROUND
by the pretext of saying. "Thank you. I will now show you the
spines of the books.
tl
Here the performer turns the shelf around
and points out the different titles etc, and then has the spec-
tator pick out his chosen book by counting from left to rightl
Here is a table prompter that can be pasted on a pencil.
First the books must be placed spines backwards as in Fig. 2.
To count
left to right
DO NOT TURN
TURN SHELF
numbers
chosen
2,
4 or 7
AN AL MANN EXCLUSIVE
To count
right to left
TURN SHELF
DO NOT TURN
3,
6
or
8
The patter is the important key here. The book shelf must
be turned around sooner or later and your audience does not
care when. You have the edge here as to when to turn it around
and the routine looks quite normal.
THE FORMAT OF THE X-TOMES
BOOK
11
(the thin book) contains the original text in
63
numbered pages and seven chapters. There are no two pages alike
in this book. If a book must be given out to examine, this is
the book to use although the other two books can also be given
out. A person can read all of book 1 and not see anything amiss.
But the text is very hard reading as it deals with the abstract
science of existentialism. Anyone other than a philosopher or
student will tire of reading the text after
3
or four pages.
BOOK
5.
The blue book contains 191 numbered pages in 21 chap-
ters. This book contains the same text as book 1 but repeated
3
times under different page numbers and chapters. Chapter VIII
on page
65
is the same as Chapter I on page 1, etc.
Please note that Chapter XIII (13) on page 105 is not listed
on the table of contents. There is a reason for this which will
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THE FORMAT •.•.•••.• cont.
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be dealt with later. The table of contents only shows 20 chapters
while the book has 21. That is because the table of contents will
not come under too much use or scrutiny.
BOOK
9.
The red book contains 255 numbered pages in 28
chapters but only 20 chapters are listed in the table of con-
tents for the same reason given above. If a spectator is given
a choice of any chapter he will be directed to choose from the
table of contents which will give him a wide choice.
Book
9
has the same text as book 1 but repeated
4
times.
The different sizes, thickness and color of the books which
have the same contents are in itself a potent weapon for any
professional mentalist.
MINDREADING AND PREDICTING THE WORD
After forcing the 'Title' and 'Author' the performer also
forces a word and in the presentation does
~uwe
mindreadingl
After spectator removes his chosen book trom the shelt, he
is told to sit about 10 or more feet away from the performer
and to secretly open the book to any page and tell no one the
page number. Performer then tells him what he is reading even
though every page in the book is different.
SECRET. Please open anyone of the
X-Tomes to any page. You now have two
pages, the left and the right pages.
Assume that these two pages are just
one. Somewhere on the two pages there
is a short paragraph, composed of
3 or
4
lines.
-~
Please refer to Fig. 3. Throughout
the text, there are six short paragraphs
Fig.
3
peppered in different positions not
necessarily in any order.
Paragraph number 1 is always found in the Upper left hand
page as shown by the 1 in the circle on Fig. 3. This is called
paragraph 1, UL.
Paragraph 2 is always found on the lower left, called 2-LL.
Paragraph 3 is in the upper right, called 3-UR.
Paragraph
4
is in the lower right, called
4-LR
Paragraph 5 starts on the lower left and ends in the upper
right. A person reading this short paragraph will start rea-
ding on the bottom of the left hand page and end reading on the
top of the right hand page. This is called 5-LL-UR
Paragraph
0
starts on the lower right and ends in the upper
10· .
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