Find a quiet, secluded space… get comfortable, close your eyes, and imagine: the postman rings. A package trapped for 60+ years in the USPS’s Dead Letter Office has finally arrived. The sender: Some Canadian character named Lyons. The contents: A long-lost, wild-eyed old zine dedicated entirely to a flexible, multi-layered framework for one solitary routine. Hidden math of some sort may be involved.

Enough to jolt some from their waking nightmare in frantic search of Theory 11? Sure. But for those of you still reveling comfortably in this ramshackle fantasy, the Gnominal Gnomes proudly present…

Concordance!*

A flexible approach to the impossible coincidence

No, this is not a lost issue of Ibidem. But after a beer or two, with a bit of squinting, perhaps you can fool yourself.

A volunteer is invited to mix eight small envelopes featuring ornately-designed graphics (in this case large question marks). She then chooses four for herself and four for the performer. Despite a myriad of genuinely free choices leading to this point, the volunteer’s decisions are shown to have been subliminally influenced by text hidden in each envelope’s design. She has in fact selected envelopes subtly labeled “one” through “four” for herself, and (likewise) “one” through “four” for the performer.

The performer’s envelopes are opened. Each contains a single word forming – quite surprisingly – a logical, grammatically correct sentence. For example, “You [or Gretchen] picked eight words.” The volunteer follows suit – her mystically-constructed sentence relating in some way to the performer’s. For example: “I [or John] made the magic!”

Concordance provides a flexible, multi-layered framework for the “impossible coincidence” – merely scratching the surface of a new angle on miraculous wordplay.

 *aka “Turn of a Friendly Word”

Thirty-five e-pages (give or take) of e-lectronic joy!

Each PDF copy numbered and coded to thwart those dastardly pirates!!

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!!

Paypal $12.51 (along with your email address and REAL name) to hostlerj@gmail.com NOW! Or tomorrow, maybe – no rush. Allow 1-3 business days for file customization and delivery.

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