Scripted Spontaneity!: Personal Scripts for Classic Magic

Scripted Spontaneity by Jacques Lord is the author's effort to capture and share his personal contributions to classic sleight-of-hand magic. The intended audience are magicians with minimum intermediate skills.

Jacques Lord is a Certified Fraud! No, that's not right. Jacques Lord is a Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Engineering Geologist in the State of California with more than 40 years of practical experience in the remediation construction and compliance field. He has degrees in geophysics and geology from Brown and Rice Universities, making him a macrobiotic geologist. Get it? Brown Rice? Laugh it up, people, because these are the jokes. In fact, this is exactly the type of "humor" you'd expect from a man whose professional experience includes construction of the South Texas Nuclear Power Project; Health & Safety supervisor at Outage 16 Unit 2 at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station; and managing Base Realignment and Closure under SUPERFUND for the Navy and the Air Force. In his free time, he spent four years doing seismic exploration while living in camps in the Middle East, the Australian Outback, and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to his Bachelor of Science in Geophysics and Masters of Arts in Geology, Jacques is a long-standing member of the Academy of Magical Arts and an Insufferable Know-It-All. He's also got a great laugh. His background in magic has been a boon to his last nine years working as a fraud investigator. After all, it takes a con to know a con. Do yourself a favor and hang out with Jacques for a bit. You're sure to learn something, even if it's not what you were expecting.

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