Dyment, Doug: Calculated Thoughts ©2021 Doug Dyment, Vanishing, Inc. Hardcover, no dj, 398 pages

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Contents (from book ToC, updated Dec 2022):

9 Comments on Terminology
11 Foreword (Ken Weber)

13 Magic Squares
15 What Is It About Magic Squares, Anyway?
21 Flash Squared
37 Foundation Square
41 Square School
45 The Natal Square
54 Fair & Square

61 Full Deck Stacks
63 Full Deck Stacks
71 On the Ordering of Playing Card Suits
73 Hiding a Sequence in Plain Sight
77 The DAO Stack
84 The 4D Stack
87 QuickStack 3.0
100 SnapStack
103 The Q Stack
110 The Zenith Stack
117 The Chroma Stack
121 The ChroMem Stack

123 Card Capers
125 Menologue
130 PokerFace
134 PokerPlay
146 An Immoderate Deception
150 Major Arcanum
156 Couplet
159 Bob’s Your Uncle
167 ESPerimental

169 Quarto
171 Introduction
172 Evolution
182 Execution
197 Consummation
202 Contribution
213 Codicil - Six Billet Layouts

215 Zenermancy
217 Introduction
223 Symbols: Introduction
225 Symbols: Interpretation
226 The Circle
227 The Cross
228 The Wavy Lines
229 The Square
230 The Star
231 Transitions: Introduction
233 Transitions: Interpretation
236 A Reader Prepares
243 Reading Dynamics
250 An Abecedarian Adjunct
251 Coloured Symbols
253 Bibliography

253 Wordplay
255 Sign Language
268 Verbiage

271 Mystery Mélange
273 Penney’s From Heaven
277 Spoiled for Choice
297 FourSight
303 The Real Thing
314 The Vision

321 For the Toolkit
323 BikeMarks 2.0
327 Tick Tock Too
332 How to Construct a Forcing Matrix
335 Premise NV
338 Marker Cribs

341 Musings
343 On Performance
346 On Overthinking
348 On the Use of Props in Mentalism
349 On Extrasensory Perception
351 On Psychic Guilt
352 On Predicting the Future
353 On Learning Cold Reading
360 On The Validity of Readings
361 On Being a Perpetual Student

363 Borrowed Business
365 Other Minds, Other Thoughts
366 ABCDEFG
370 The BBB Peek
375 Design Duplicity
381 Psi Coin
387 C.C. Seer
390 Figmental
394 Bloodied

397 Acknowledgements
398 Afterword (Richard Webster)