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.The judges were to be at least forty years old, of unimpeachable reputation, distinguishedfor virtue and wisdom, masters of theology, or doctors or licentiates of canon law, and theymust follow the usual ecclesiastical rules and regulations.On 17 September 1480, Ferdinand and Isabella appointed, at first for Seville, twoDominicans as inquisitors, with two of the secular clergy assistants.Fray TomásTorquemada (at Valladolid in 1420, at Avila, in 1498) was the true organizer of theSpanish Inquisition.The institution speedily ramified from Seville to Cordova, Jaen,Valladolid, Villareal, and Toledo, about 1538 there were nineteen courts, to which threewere afterwards added in Spanish America (Mexico, Lima, and Cartagena).The Spanishgovernment tried to establish the Inquisition in all its dominions; but in the SpanishNetherlands the local officials did not cooperate, and the inquisitors were chased (1510)out of Naples, apparently with the pope's connivance.Email: houseofdarknessuk@msn.com ConcordLewis JonesYet another shot at Any Card at Any Number! Anyone shuffles the deck.One spectatorpicks out any card, by freely cutting the deck herself.A second spectator, with the deckin his own hands, deals out any number of cards himself.Bingo.Working1.You don t need to be at a table.Alan and Bridget are facing you.He is right of centre,she is left of centre.Hand the deck to Bridget for a thorough shuffle.Then ask her tohand the deck to Alan for a further shuffle. It s important that you both give thecards a mixing, because this experiment is going to involve both of you. Receivethe deck back, and place it on the open palm of Bridget s left hand.Explain that you want her to spell out her name by cutting small packets off the top of thedeck, one packet per letter.Demonstrate by using a random name such as Ann, andusing your right hand to cut off three packets on to your open left palm, one packet perletter.Point out that if the name was spelled A-N-N-E, you would need to cut off an extrapacket for the extra letter.Do so.This emphasises the fact that even small variations inspelling will result in different numbers of cards being cut.Return the dealt cards to thetop of the deck on Bridget s left palm.Ask, What is your name, actually? When she says, Bridget, invite her to make thecuts on to the flat palm of your left hand.Then point to the top card of those remaining inher left hand, and invite her to take a peek at it and remember it.There is one provisoshe must not let Alan see its face.She leaves the card on top of those in her left hand.2.You now go into Personal Control, from The Magic Gourmet.Your right hand picksup the dealt packet from your left palm in Biddle grip.Your left hand takes the remainderof the deck from Bridget, and your right hand now slaps its packet on top of the lefthand s cards, but in a slightly outjogged position.You are now holding the entire deck inBiddle grip.3.Immediately turn to Alan, and at the same time, your right fingers, at the far end of thecomplete deck, squeeze the upper half back towards you.Your right thumb, pushingdown on the injogged strip of the lower half, opens a break, and your left little fingermaintains it as your right hand moves away.Ask Alan to offer you the open palm of his left hand.Say, We already know yourname, Alan. Immediately repeat the transfer of small packets from the top of the deckto an accumulating pile on his left hand one packet per letter as before but this timespelling out the name A-L-A-N.All you need to do is reach the break at the second-lastletter of his name.When you drop the remaining cards on top of the cards in his hand,reciting the final letter of the name, the chosen card will now be on top of the deck.Inthis handling, you have been holding a break for no more than a few seconds. You ve now both spelled your names with the same deck of shuffled cards.Youknow what that means, don t you? It means this deck is personalised to you both.But it s been personalised to each of you separately once with your name,Bridget, and once with your name, Alan.What we need now is a way to make useof some bond between the two of you.We need something that both of you havein common.Suppose we take a number some number that has a specialmeaning to both of you.It might be the number of years you ve been together.Itcould be the day of the month when you first met.Or the number of the housewhere you live.Your choice.What do you suggest? 4.Suppose they decide on 17 the number of years they ve been together.Hold outyour left hand palm up (as you did for Bridget), and invite Alan to deal 17 cards face-down on to the palm of your hand.Alan will stop dealing when he reaches the number 17.Your right hand pinches the nearend of the dealt packet in a very open and delicate fashion, between forefinger on topand thumb below.Your left hand takes the rest of the cards from Alan, then flips thesecards face-up and spreads them a little as you say, Alan, these are the cards youdidn t want, because you didn t even reach them. Use the right hand packet to tap the face-up packet now in your left hand, and takethe opportunity to glimpse the bottom cardof the right hand packet (Fig.1) This is thechosen card, You don t even need toidentify the exact card all you need is aflash of the suit.Suppose this is Hearts.Your left hand squares up its cards again. Bridget your left hand, please. Yourleft hand deposits its cards, still face-up, onBridget s left palm.Your right hand replaces its 17-card packetFig.1on your open left hand again.Your rightforefinger taps the top card of the packet as you say, Alan, this is your seventeenthcard. Turn to Bridget, and say, Now Bridget, we come to the interesting bit.Doyou still remember the card in your head? 5.You are now about to use Ken Krenzel s Milk Run.Your right hand lifts the near end ofthe top card between the first two fingers above and the thumb below.Raise the nearend of the card to an almost vertical position, but with the far end still in contact with thefar end of the packet (Fig.2).Look at the face of the upraised card.Ignoring the actualsuit of this card, and remembering that the chosen card is a Heart, say, Bridget, you renot thinking of a red card, are you? As she answers, the knuckle of your leftforefinger is sliding the bottom card towards you so that it ends up injogged (Fig.3 withright hand omitted)Fig.2 Fig.3.Your right hand now changes its grip slightly so that the top end of the vertical cardbecomes held between your right index finger nail at the near (face) side and the pad ofyour second finger tip at the far side.Your right thumb is now free [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]