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The Origins of Wonder

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cards:misdirection_palm [2020/03/15 18:41] – Added information on the Collins-Marlo controversy. stephenminchcards:misdirection_palm [2020/03/16 21:12] (current) stephenminch
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 This palm was published by Ed Marlo in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10922/The+Cardician/56|The Cardician]]//, 1953, p. 55. Stanley Collins also wrote up the palm in his "Zeta Four Ace Trick" from //Gems of Personal Prestidigitation// [1952], p. 24. This book was never actually published, and didn't see the light of day until inclusion in Edwin Dawes's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/25508/Stanley+Collins/308|Stanley Collins: Conjurer, Collector, and Iconoclast]]//, 2002. However, the manuscript for it was privately circulated shortly after its composition for evaluation by select magicians in the U.K. and U.S. This palm was published by Ed Marlo in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10922/The+Cardician/56|The Cardician]]//, 1953, p. 55. Stanley Collins also wrote up the palm in his "Zeta Four Ace Trick" from //Gems of Personal Prestidigitation// [1952], p. 24. This book was never actually published, and didn't see the light of day until inclusion in Edwin Dawes's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/25508/Stanley+Collins/308|Stanley Collins: Conjurer, Collector, and Iconoclast]]//, 2002. However, the manuscript for it was privately circulated shortly after its composition for evaluation by select magicians in the U.K. and U.S.
  
-In Marlo's description in //The Cardician//, he claimed he had been protecting the idea for years, and that it had been moving through the underground for a time. This claim may have been motivated, in part, by the sleight appearing in Collins's manuscriptamong the private circle who read it Marlo would likely have been a member. It's impossible to say if news of the sleight got as far as Collins, who lived in St. Leonards-on-Sea, England, previous to 1952; or if Collins's manuscript was read by Marlo shortly before his published //The Cardician//. Nor, without further evidence, can independent invention be ruled out.+In Marlo's description in //The Cardician//, he claimed he had been protecting the idea for years, and that it had been moving through the underground for a time. This claim may have been motivated, in part, by the sleight appearing in Collins's manuscriptamong the private circle who read it Marlo would likely have been a member. It's impossible to say if news of the sleight got as far as Collins, who lived in St. Leonards-on-Sea, England, previous to 1952; or if Collins's manuscript was read by Marlo shortly before he published //The Cardician//. Nor, without further evidence, can independent invention be ruled out.
  
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