Magic Tricks

There are some really good ideas in this booklet. Interesting thoughts on the smash and stab plot, as well as bank night. This is an expensive booklet for a small amount of material, but well worth the price if these are original thoughts that someone can incorporate into their work. However, there was a big red flag in the last trick of the book, where the author vigorously claims to have invented the "Out to Lunch Principle". And here's the kicker -- he claims to have named it "Out to Lunch" because he thought of it while having lunch with a friend. He expresses "frustration" that everyone in the world is familiar with this principle and never gives him credit. Of course, as we all know, this principle has been around over 100 years, and was featured in a marketed effexct in 1947 called Out to Lunch, giving the principle the name we've known it by for nearly 8 decades. Of course, magicians independently come up with the same principles/methods very often, but that independent magicians would give the same principle the same odd name such as "out to lunch" defies credulity. Which now begs the question, is other material in the book taken from other sources and simply claimed to be by the author?