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| − | The [[Castle Notebooks]] are [[Bruce Cervon]]'s | + | The [[Castle Notebooks]] are [[Bruce Cervon]]'s legendary recording of everything he learned from Dai Vernon at the Magic Castle. His notes grew to fill thirteen binders. Bruce jealously guarded them. |
Later with Dai Vernon's permission, the "Castle Notebooks" aided in the creation of "[[The Vernon Chronicles]]." | Later with Dai Vernon's permission, the "Castle Notebooks" aided in the creation of "[[The Vernon Chronicles]]." | ||
Revision as of 19:39, 27 June 2008
The Castle Notebooks are Bruce Cervon's legendary recording of everything he learned from Dai Vernon at the Magic Castle. His notes grew to fill thirteen binders. Bruce jealously guarded them.
Later with Dai Vernon's permission, the "Castle Notebooks" aided in the creation of "The Vernon Chronicles."
In Cervon's introduction to The Vernon Chronicles volume 1: "[...] In 1971 my note keeping stopped, but I had by then thirteen, hand-printed, eight-by-eleven inch notebooks with over one-hundred pages each. Unfortunately, for Vernon fans, after the fifth volume most of the material is my own."
In Cervon's introduction to The Vernon Chronicles volume 3" "[...] First I go through my notebooks and cull Dai's work from the many items recorded there. Often my notes are condensed and details must be filled in from memory; and sometimes I find tricks that neither Dai nor I have done for many years, and that both of us have forgotten. In such cases, details of handling must be reconstructed."
In 2007, L & L Publishing started releasing scanned fascimilies of the Books as five separate volumes, limiting them though to only 500 copies.
