On 2009-01-22 10:09, Paul Chosse wrote:

Vernon's approach to "Think-a-Card" type effects can hardly be called Jazz Magic. The term, as I understand it, implies a spontaneous performance. Vernon was hardly spontaneous. No, he was "deadly sure" in his approach to any magical effect, a tenet that he adopted by studying Liepzig. So, he had multiple methods and multiple endings at his disposal. And their use, alone or in combination, was all carefully worked out well in advance of the spectator "Thinking of a card"...

On 2009-01-22 12:05, lithyem wrote:

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On 2009-01-22 10:09, Paul Chosse wrote:

Vernon's approach to "Think-a-Card" type effects can hardly be called Jazz Magic. The term, as I understand it, implies a spontaneous performance. Vernon was hardly spontaneous. No, he was "deadly sure" in his approach to any magical effect, a tenet that he adopted by studying Liepzig. So, he had multiple methods and multiple endings at his disposal. And their use, alone or in combination, was all carefully worked out well in advance of the spectator "Thinking of a card"...

Watching Vernon in the Revelations sessions the other day... this is more related to the TTCBE but he's said that he used with think-of-a-card, which was my argument in the first place for asking about the cards that spectators most often say

Not exact quotes...
Steve Forte:
One of the things you were famous for was making up a trick as you went along...
Dai Vernon:
Oh yes, I had the "Trick that Can't be Explained"
Speaking about Al Koran - Al asked to see one good trick - try to fool me he said.
I didn't know what I was going to do! I hadn't the faintest idea! I had a 2 packs in my pocket one of which I knew the top and bottom card... I asked him to point to any card in the one pack and took out the other pack and showed the bottom card to match the card he pointed to.
Al just walked out of the room.