"Something like," said Solomon dryly. "It's a technique more to do with memory. It uses a place extremely familiar to you as a medium by which to remember lists--names, or tasks, or numbers. Manifesting objects uses a similar set of principles."

He laid a hand on the chair. "This is the chair from my office, at home." Moving around a rectangular area, his hand flat against the air, he visualised a desk and a moment later one sprouted under the ground beneath his hand, in the same sort of style as his chair. "And this is my desk." He put down the book. "And this is the most recent journal I had been using to write in."

Solomon looked at Frank. "The more familiar the object is to you," he said, "the less work your mind needs to do in order to manifest them, and the easier it is to remember that it exists without your needing to focus upon it." He tapped the book. "If you need to write in something, don't simply manifest a book, or a set of pages--manifest a specific book, or a specific set of pages. If you need something in which to sit, visualise your favourite chair, or stump, or stool--it doesn't matter what it is, so long as you know it well enough for your subconscious mind to accept that it is there."