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The Origins of Wonder

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-Frederick Montague recorded the earliest known description and application of the topological idea of reversing a portion of a handheld spread. With this he accomplished the control of the card to second from the top of the deck. It appeared in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/24985/Westminster+Wizardry/76|Westminster Wizardry]]//, 1928, p. 74. J. B. Bernat used the reversed spread as a method for placing a key card next to a selectionHe published this under the title of "Engaño Óptico" in //Cartomagia: 30 años después//, 1981, p. 69He claims to have come up with the idea in the late 1940s or early 1950s.+Frederick Montague recorded the earliest known description and application of the topological idea of reversing a portion of a handheld spread. With this he accomplished the control of the card to second from the top of the deck. It appeared in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/24985/Westminster+Wizardry/76|Westminster Wizardry]]//, 1928, p. 74. Montague's technique only involves reversing one half of the spread. The first published technique to reverse both halves of the spread---secretly cutting the deck in the process---appeared in Karl Fulves'//Card Under Glass//, 1979, p. 78Fulves credits it as an unpublished move of Fr. Cyprian's.
  
-This predates Piet Forton's claim of a similar move sometime in the 1960s. Forton and Wolff von Keyserlingk published their work using the reverse spread to effect a "pass" control in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/21840/Inside+CardMagic+Band+2/49|Inside CardMagic II]]//, 1996, p. 47, edited by Oliver Erens, as "Light-reft Spread Pass". (See the English translation in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12469/Concertos+for+Pasteboard/57|Concertos for Pasteboard]]//, p. 43.) Bernat's creation and publication dates both precede Forton's and von Keyserlingk's.+J. B. Bernat used the same technique as Cyprian for a method to place a key card next to a selection. He published this under the title of "Engaño Óptico" in //Cartomagia: 30 años después//, 1981, p. 69. He claims to have come up with the idea in the late 1940s or early 1950s. 
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 +This predates Piet Forton's claim of a similar move sometime in the 1960s. Forton and Wolff von Keyserlingk published their work using the reverse spread to effect a "pass" control (identical in concept to Cyprian's move) in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/21840/Inside+CardMagic+Band+2/49|Inside CardMagic II]]//, 1996, p. 47, edited by Oliver Erens, as "Light-reft Spread Pass". (See the English translation in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12469/Concertos+for+Pasteboard/57|Concertos for Pasteboard]]//, p. 43.) Bernat's creation date, and Cyprian'publication date both precede Forton's and von Keyserlingk's.
  
 (On a related note, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10903/Linking+Ring/88|The Linking Ring]]//, Vol. 82 No. 9, Sep. 2002, p. 88, Allan Ackerman describes the same idea under the title "Ultimate Gesture Cut," saying that it had been developed after a visiting magician -- whose name he couldn't recall -- showed him a reverse-spread handling of the [[cards:prophesy_move|Prophesy Move]] in 1976. This Prophesy Move application is given on [[http://askalexander.org/display/10903/Linking+Ring/95|p. 95]].) (On a related note, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10903/Linking+Ring/88|The Linking Ring]]//, Vol. 82 No. 9, Sep. 2002, p. 88, Allan Ackerman describes the same idea under the title "Ultimate Gesture Cut," saying that it had been developed after a visiting magician -- whose name he couldn't recall -- showed him a reverse-spread handling of the [[cards:prophesy_move|Prophesy Move]] in 1976. This Prophesy Move application is given on [[http://askalexander.org/display/10903/Linking+Ring/95|p. 95]].)
  
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