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The Origins of Wonder

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 Instances can be found of inserting a card under the top card while suggesting the card is going deeper into the deck. Such a maneuver appears to be intended in the first method of Hofzinser's "Remember and Forget" as described by Ottokar Fischer in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15020/J+N+Hofzinser+Kartenkunste/104|J. N. Hofzinser Kartenkünste]]//, 1910, p. 91, or p. 90 of the Sharpe translation (//[[http://askalexander.org/display/29356/J+N+Hofzinser+s+Card+Conjuring/94|J. N. Hofzinser's Card Conjuring]]//, 1931). Another instance appears in Ralph W. Hull's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14536/The+Complete+Eye+Openers/15|Eye Openers]]//, 1932, p. 5. In neither instance is a break used to create an illusion of the card going deeper into the deck. The deception is supported only by patter and previous honest insertions designed to condition the spectators' perceptions. Instances can be found of inserting a card under the top card while suggesting the card is going deeper into the deck. Such a maneuver appears to be intended in the first method of Hofzinser's "Remember and Forget" as described by Ottokar Fischer in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15020/J+N+Hofzinser+Kartenkunste/104|J. N. Hofzinser Kartenkünste]]//, 1910, p. 91, or p. 90 of the Sharpe translation (//[[http://askalexander.org/display/29356/J+N+Hofzinser+s+Card+Conjuring/94|J. N. Hofzinser's Card Conjuring]]//, 1931). Another instance appears in Ralph W. Hull's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14536/The+Complete+Eye+Openers/15|Eye Openers]]//, 1932, p. 5. In neither instance is a break used to create an illusion of the card going deeper into the deck. The deception is supported only by patter and previous honest insertions designed to condition the spectators' perceptions.
  
-A refinement of this idea, in which a large break is secretly formed under the top card of the deck at the front end and a card is inserted into it, seems to have begun to circulate in the middle decades of the 1900s. This idea employed the illusion of depth, but used a frontal insertion. The inventor of this method is uncertain and Fulves surmises that it was probably independently discovered by several magicians. A distinctive variation of the idea was published by Edward Victor in //Further Magic of the Hands//, 1946, p. 24.+A refinement of this idea, in which a large break is secretly formed under the top card of the deck at the front end and a card is inserted into it, seems to have begun to circulate in the middle decades of the 1900s. This idea employed the illusion of depth, but used a frontal insertion. Howard Wurst and and Bill Pawson described this version in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/38386/The+Sphinx/9|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 48 No. 11, Jan. 1950, p. 285. A distinctive variation of the idea --- where the card was inserted from the side of the deck --- was published by Edward Victor in //Further Magic of the Hands//, 1946, p. 24.
  
 The feature that distinguishes Vernon's application of the Depth Illusion is the insertion of the card into a deep break at the rear of the deck, rather than at the more vulnerable front end. The feature that distinguishes Vernon's application of the Depth Illusion is the insertion of the card into a deep break at the rear of the deck, rather than at the more vulnerable front end.

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