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Dear Josef, I hope that you will make better

  • Dear Josef, I hope that you will make better use of "The Card Tricks of Enoch" than I, a scatterbrain, will ever do. I am old enough to wonder whether I am being manipulative, but
  • the stranger who sent the book to me on my 18th birthday said that great things could be done with the knowledge herein. I pray you will use "The Card Tricks of Enoch" responsibly.
  • The first trick was 52 card pick-up. I guess you have to crawl before you walk. But after 20 years of study I had mastered the "Guillotine Shuffle." There I was at the Indian Casin
  • o. I sat down at the sports bar and watched the boxing day test match. Australia vs South Africa at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The opening batsman was bowled out for a duck. The
  • initial curiosity and excitement soon faded as I understood what cricket is all about. It's about... ermm, wickets.. and... Oh my god that Aussie chick is staring right at me
  • ,speaking of wickets. I was having wicket thoughts about her when WHAAAP. The last thing I remember is that Aussie chick leaning over me, a concerned expression on her face.
  • It seems I'd received a cricket ball to the other head. She asked if she could help. As a nurse she'd been in applying all manner of splits and the like. I was in a sticky wicket
  • , literally. The nurse untangled me from the gigantic, sentient, and slightly sticky) wicket, pulling little splinters out of my second head with her teeth. It was all very erotic,
  • for me at least. Not for the nurse who wanted to finish her shift on time for once this week. I wrapped up the sticky wicket and, limping slightly, discharged myself from hospital
  • cafeteria, sneaking my makeshift croquet sushi roll into the nursery. Three layers of seaweed. Delicious. As I ate I noticed one of the tots in the ward watching me: Spam baby.
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2012-08-14 20:01:19
Finished
2013-03-29 00:11:45

3 Comments

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    SlimWhitman Mar 29 2013 @ 10:25

    Hahaha. ll: discharged myself and GB hints at SB origins...
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    inatick Mar 29 2013 @ 11:30

    Nice sticky wicket reference I was certain that if I wrote about cricket I'd have the Americans stumped. Odd fact: 1st ever international cricket match was played between Canada and USA.
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    inatick Mar 29 2013 @ 11:34

    Sticky wicket: The phrase comes from the game of cricket. The pitch in cricket is also known as "the wicket" (According to the Laws of Cricket, this usage is incorrect, but it is in common usage and commonly understood by cricket followers). It can be affected by rain and the sun, causing the ball to bounce unpredictably: a pitch which had been wet would become increasingly difficult to bat on, as it dried out. Such a pitch was referred to as a "sticky wicket" for a batsman because the ball's bounces are unpredictable. Such wickets are far less common in cricket since matches stopped being played on uncovered pitches.

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