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 ====== Future Reverse ======
-While commonly credited to Ed Marlo, because of its use in the second method in his 1945 booklet //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14049/Future+Reverse/7|Future Reverse]]//, this sleight is described, without attribution, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13140/Greater+Magic/395|Greater Magic]]// (1938), bottom of p. 339, in the context of a card prediction, in which the magician openly reverses a card in the deck, which later proves to be a freely named selection. (This //Greater Magic// reference was spotted by Denis Behr.) This effect, by the way, bears a resemblance to Marlo's "Future Reverse" effect, suggesting the item in //Greater Magic// was his inspiration. Marlo does not claim the sleight; nor does he cite a source for it.
+While commonly credited to Ed Marlo, because of its use in the second method in his booklet, //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14049/Future+Reverse/7|Future Reverse]]// 1945, p. 6, this sleight is described, without attribution, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13140/Greater+Magic/395|Greater Magic]]//, 1938, p. 339, in the context of a card prediction, in which the magician openly reverses a card in the deck, which later proves to be a freely named selection. (This was spotted by Denis Behr.) This effect, by the way, bears a resemblance to Marlo's "Future Reverse" effect from the cited booklet, meaning the item in //Greater Magic// may have been his inspiration. Marlo does not claim the sleight; nor does he cite a source for it.
+An earlier sleight with similar mechanics in which a card in the center is reversed and simultaneously brought to the top was published by Louis Lam in //Would You Believe It?//, 1935, p. 8.
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