The Eccentric Tear is Ray Hyman’s masterpiece. This center tear gives you two reads from the paper: an instant read and a delayed read.
If this sounds good, I have great news: the move is very easy (you will have it down instantly, there is no knack to it, and it works well with all kinds of paper and hand moisture), and it comes with fully justified reads and clean-ups (to let you start, get your information, and end clean), while letting you simplify routines in ways that were previously impossible.
This manuscript comes with several routines, most of which are impromptu and done in a single move:
- The Telephone Drama: Ray Hyman designed The Eccentric Tear to perform this routine, giving him a way to reveal a name and a full ten-digit phone number on the fly. If you ever thought it would be nice to be able to use Annemann’s presentation… this is it. It is the easiest and most straightforward way to present this routine.
- The Lazy Man’s Name and Place (Nestor Dee): This is the easiest variant of Bob Cassidy’s famous Name and Place routine… really. And the audience will never realize that you went the lazy way about it…
- The Triple Telephone Drama (Nestor Dee): What about a full mini act; a triple billet test where the second revelation is already a back-to-back drawing duplication of a billet that is returned without ever opening it, things only going up from there?
- The Hanussen Affair (Nestor Dee): Put together a small drama and reproduce Erik Jan Hanussen’s famous trial, revealing a participant’s memory, and piercing the veil of time and space!
- The Double Billet (Nestor Dee): A take on a Barrie Richardson routine in which the performer reads their participant’s mind then, impressed with them, suggests an on-the-spot drawing duplication as an encore!
- And more, including a variant that let’s you read a full question!
This manuscript is very much an homage to Ray Hyman and his contributions to mentalism. If you have ever wanted to pick up an instant-read center tear, looked for a way to add something to your existing reveals, or been interested in any of the above routines, then I am confident that you will find something here.
“I’ve been using the T-Rex extensively for years, and the Eccentric might just become my new go-to center tear! The amount of mileage you can get from this thing is incredible. Having both an instant read and a delayed one is an absolute game-changer!” — Julien Losa
“Beyond a doubt, Ray Hyman’s Eccentric Tear is one of the best if not the best of the Tear & Read methods. It is simple as all good art should be and most easy to do. A child can do it!” — Al Mann
“As I recall it, Ray was once near a famous psychic, so he dropped by for a visit. She was very cagey, insisting she was the real thing. Finally, Ray did his center tear for her, and she immediately blurted out, ‘how much do you want for that?’” — Loren Pankratz
“I cannot think of a more direct and almost fool-proof method for the telephone drama than the one that I have described here. But, then, Annemann, writing back in 1935, believed that he, too, had come up with the last word on how to achieve this effect.” — Ray Hyman
