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PuRE EffECT

Direct Mind Reading

And Magical Artistry

Derren Brown

Photographs by Peter Cliffoid

H&R.

MAGIC BOOKS

Derren Brown and his lovely cat Spasm relaxing at home.

When a performance is over, zohat remains? Fun can be forgotłen, buł

potoerful emolioti also disappears and good arguments lose their thread.

When emotion and argument are harnessed to a wish from the audience to

see more clearly into itself- then something in the mind burns. The event

scorches onto the memory an outline, a taste, a tracę, a srnell - a picture. It

is the plai/'s central image that remains, it's silhouette, and if the elements

are highly blended this silhouette zoili be its meaning, this shape zoili be the

essence of what it has to say. When years later I think ofa striking theatrical

experience Ifind a kernel engraved on my memory. Iwo tramps under a

tree, an old woman dragging a cart, a sergeant dancing, three people on a

sofa in heli - or occasionally a tracę deeper than any imagery. I haven't a

hope of remembering the meanings precisely, but from the kernel I can

construct a set of meanings. Then a purpose will have been serued. A fezu

hours could amend my thinkingfor life. This is almost but not quite

impossible to achieve.

From Peter Brook's The Empty Space.

We are proud to be able to offer the magical fraternity this series of

manuscripts that Derren made in the 1990s. Although originally

nothing more than a few blank sheets of paper tied together with

string, we have been able to reconstruct them as he would have

wanted had he cared. This first volume represents the best of his

output, before he eventually retired to concentrate upon his second

great love - contributing short stories to the specialist magazine

Wheelchair Fellałio.

Derren Brown - Pure Effect.pdf