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The Origins of Wonder

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 ====== Sandwich Effect ====== ====== Sandwich Effect ======
  
-Likely the earliest description of a sandwich effect is in Richard Neve's //The merry companion: or, delights for the ingenious// (1716; see "To make any one  blow a card in between two cards"). An early modern example of this effect (perhaps the earliest) is Louis F. Christianer's "Obedient Card" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38784/The+Magic+wand+and+magical+review/104|The Magic Wand]]//, Jan. 1917, p. 78.+The sandwich effect can be found in Richard Neve's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10637/Merry+Companion+or+Delights+for+the+Ingenious/138|The merry companion: or, delights for the ingenious]]//1716, p. 121; see "To make any one blow a Card in between two Cards.An early modern example of this effect (perhaps the earliest) is Louis F. Christianer's "Obedient Card" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38784/The+Magic+wand+and+magical+review/104|The Magic Wand]]//, Jan. 1917, p. 78.
  
-There was also a variant in which the two reversed sandwich cards appear by surprise, surrounding the selection. Larsen and Wright had one of these in their //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15058/The+L+W+Card+Mysteries/18|L. W. Card Mysteries]]//. Jack McMillen and Judson Cole published another method for the L. W. effect, titled "A New Reverse Location" in //Take a Card//, c. 1929-30, p. 8.+There was also a variant in which the two reversed sandwich cards appear by surprise, surrounding the selection. William Larsen and T. Page Wright had one of these in their //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15058/The+L+W+Card+Mysteries/18|L. W. Card Mysteries]]//, n.d. (c. 1928), p. 10. Jack McMillen and Judson Brown published another method for the L. W. effect, titled "A New Reverse Location" in //Take a Card//, 1929, p. 8.
  
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