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====== Trick That Cannot be Explained ====== | ====== Trick That Cannot be Explained ====== | ||
- | While credited to Dai Vernon, earlier published versions | + | The overarching methodological theme of this plot is that the performer confidently improvises his way through the procedural portion of a magic trick --- unbeknownst to the audience |
- | A discussion | + | Conard B. Rheiner created "The Touch of Mephistopheles" |
- | An even earlier | + | An approach to arriving at a force card's position through on-the-spot finagling was published by (but specifically not claimed by) Theodore Annemann in // |
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+ | Milt Kort recalls that Stewart James described an improvisational card effect and its procedures in a letter. A discussion of James's approach, which he called "The Face-Up Prediction," | ||
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+ | Other versions include Joe Berg's "A Miracle Maybe" in Martin Gardner' | ||
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+ | Dai Vernon' | ||
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