Hello everyone!
Today’s topics are: Roberto on Italian tour; Vernon on Correspondence
These are The Magic Memories 202, gone online Sunday, November 10, 2024, at 0:07h sharp.
All The Magic Memories from 2021, 2022, and 2023, including the Magic Advent Calendar from 2020, can be found HERE.
Preview to the Italian Tour
As you are reading this I am in the middle of my yearly Italian tour, with stops in Castellamonte (truffle lunch with magic friends), Torino (talk & presentation of Unexpected Agenda for the Club Amici Della Magia, Italy’s biggest magic club with close to 300 members), Cherasco (studies in Italy’s largest magic library of Don Silvio Mantelli, “bollito misto” lunch), Florence (visiting my publisher Francesco Mugnai, presentation of Unexpected Agenda for the club of the Florentine magicians, a truffle dinner in San Miniato, and the traditional “bistecca alla Fiorentina” lunch at Baldini’s), then return to Torino by fast train and drive back home to Switzerland.
I will report about this magical and gastronomical tour de force in the upcoming The Magic Memories 203.
Vernon on Correspondence
Several handwritten letters from Dai Vernon spread among the collectors of magical epistolary correspondence start something like this: “Dear friend, forgive me for being such a bad correspondent…”
In regard to today’s scarce “Memories” I thought the letter below would be very much apropos:
Here is the transcription of the text in the letter:
ADDRESS – HARRISON APTSSENECA. ST. APT 302Wichita, KansasMARCH 2, 1932DEAR SAMFORGIVE ME …. BUT YOU KNOW HOW I AM ABOUT WRITING LETTERS. MANY MANY TIMES WHILE IN COLORADO SPRINGS LAST SUMMER I INTENDED TO WRITE YOU A LONG LETTER. PAUL FUCHS HAD THE SAME INTENTION BUT WE KEPT PUTTING IT OFF, SO TRY AND MAKE ALLOWANCES SAM. AS I REALIZE I AM HOPELESS IN THIS RESPECT.
Hope to welcome back next week at The Magic Memories 203!
Wish you all a successful and happy week,
Roberto Giobbi
