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Uploaded by Katia Andrade. Did you find this document useful? Is this content inappropriate? Report this Document. Flag for inappropriate content. Download now. Related titles. Carousel Previous Carousel Next. Jump to Page. Search inside document. Derren was born in in Croydon. A precocious and puzzling only child, he liked to paint, foster obsessive habits and once set fire toa neighbour's boat by accident. Derren went on to study law and German at Bristol University and fell in love with the city.

During this time he began to perform magic in bars and restaurants, and gave occasional hypnosis shows. This secured notoriety with the public and a big apartment in London.

He still receives several letters of complaint a week from psychics and Christians. He spends any free weekends painting and likes to receive gifts. Perhaps, like me, you prefer a handy, pocket-sized walk-around version to the cumbersome monolith favoured by those ostentatious types with richly furnished libraries and more money than sex can buy. The sentences have been preserved in their original order, and the entire index has been alphabetized for clarity.

A few changes have crept in: I was constantly revived and over- joyed to receive communications from people eager to point out, perceived mistakes contained in the hardback incarnation of this volume. Most of these missives were charmless emails from barely literate correspondents who brilliantly missed the point of the counterintuitive probability problems given in Part Six, or who took umbrage to the correct solution to the Monty Hall problem described there.

I made the point in this book that this sequence was as likely to win as any other particular sequence that appeared more random, and added that surely no one would ever play the straight run as it just looked like they wouldn't stand a hope in hell. I note now that my presumption turns out to be powerfully and grotesquely wrong. Naturally any form of fun- damentalism tends to be a pretty ugly thing.

Beyond that, there is only how you choose to express yourself. At the time I had just had a fish-tank installed at home and was looking for sea-monsters with which to fill it. Tentacled, multiimbed, slithering creatures which are entirely at home only when attacking submarines or James Mason were what I was after, and the thought of visiting a place where such things as giant octopodes I notice that Microsoft is not only unhappy with the correct plural, but also allows actopi, which those of you who delight in annoying others will know is in fact wrong might glare at me through toughened and confusingly- focused glass struck me as far too exciting for words.

About halfway through this fabricated subterranean labyrinth, my conscious mind suddenly latched onto an oddity. I realized that underneath the descriptions of the various natant ichthyoids there vwas a translation of what I presumed to be the same information in Braille. For a while this seemed quite natural, and then I caught myself wondering: on average, how many blind people a year visit the London Aquarium?

Now I don't wish to sound insensitive, but I imagine the number must be negligible. I would welcome any answers from blind people to a couple of questions that have been bugging me since.

Firstly, how do you know where the Braille sign is located? This must be relatively straightforward in such things as lifts, but what about in an alien environment? If alone in a train toilet, how does one find Braille instructions for the use of obscured or unusual soap dispensers or toilet flushes? That sounds like an unpleasant and even unhygienic search to be undertaking while bumping around somewhere near Didcot Parkway.

My second concern, clearly, is if a blind visitor found the Braille sign in the Aquarium, of what earthly use would it be?

It occurred to me that the Braille signs, if located, would at best provide the blind visitor with no more to take with him from his afternoon than allst of fish. A list of fish. Upon leaving the Aquarium, both taken aback by the exit route through McDonald's and still disappointed by the poor show on the squid front, I was stopped by a young chap who wanted to say hello and ask me a few questions about what I do. We chatted for a while, and then he asked if there was a book available that could teach him more about the various skills I employ to entertain and sexually arouse the viewing few.

The life she's always dreamed of living as a successful artist seems as though it is about to begin. So excited is she that she barely notices when the car bumps against something on the road. That evening Ellie hears a news flash on the radio. A man was seriously injured in a hit and run on the very road she was driving down that evening. Then Ellie remembers the thump she heard.

Could she have been responsible for putting a man in hospital? Unable to hold the doubts at bay, she decides to visit the victim to lay her mind to rest, little knowing that the consequences of this decision will change her life forever. Derren Brown asks questions about the world, and his intelligent curiosity benefits us all.

In thirteen fascinating chapters, Derren takes us on a personal journey - to the scene of a childhood humiliation, to lonely evenings on tour, to being paralysed by shyness at a dinner party, to navigating middle age and to finding love. Sharing moments of anger, frustration, loneliness and loss, Derren reveals how it's possible to find consolation and compassion.

Even in our most challenging times we can find meaning and grow. I can't wait to read it a second time'. Martha Dreams is a collection of dreams shared by a young woman from Colihaut.

Her grandma was the dream expert in the village, and now that she has passed, who is going to explain these dreams to Martha? Martha dreams funny dreams, weird dreams, scary dreams, risky dreams, dramatic dreams, life-changing dreams, and even lucid dreams. Derren Brown's television and stage performances have entranced and dumbfounded millions.

His baffling illusions and stunning set pieces - such as The Seance, Russian Roulette and The Heist - have set new standards of what's possible, as well as causing more than their fair share of controversy. Now, for the first time, he reveals the secrets behind his craft, what makes him tick and just why he grew that beard. Tricks of the Mind takes you on a journey into the structure and psychology of magic.

Derren teaches you how to read clues in people's behaviour and spot liars. He discusses the whys and wherefores of hypnosis and shows you how to do it. And he investigates the powers of suggestion and how you can massively improve the power of your memory.

He also takes a long hard look at the paranormal industry, and looks at why some of us feel the need to believe in it in the first place Alternately hilarious, controversial and challenging, Tricks ofthe Mind is essential reading for Derren's legions of fans, and pretty bloody irresistible even if you don't like him that much