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Acknowledgment
"Heartbreak Hotel," wurds and
music by Mae Boren Axton, Tommy
Durden and Elvis Presley.
┬й 19,56 by Tree Publishing Co., Inc.
Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

Copyright ┬й 1976 by William Goldman

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All magic, it goes without saying,
is illusion. The effect of the
illusion is how it appears to the
audience. The preparation
for the illusion is everythingтАФ
from the crimping of a card
to the practicing of ten thou-
sand hours. If the prepara-
tion has been sufficient and
proper, then the execution
of the illusion is inexorable:

before you're even -started,
the work is done.

By the great ones, and I would
be lying if I didn't include