| with something. The new something happens to be exactly what we had read years |
| ago but our egos do not let us remember. On many occasions, I have talked to good, |
| competent, honest magicians that have shown me some of the things they have been |
| working on. Some of it was exactly like the pictures from my book, Al Schneider on |
| Coins, which has been out for a long time. The motions are the same; the variations of |
| handling are the same. I swear I am looking at a reflection of my hands as they perform |
| the moves. I asked them where they got it and they say they developed it on their own. |
| I do not know what to say. |
| Then there is the issue of improvement. Someone can read an effect, improve upon it |
| and publish their version. To them it is not the same. To the inventor, it can appear as |
| a copy. From this point of view, Matrix itself is an “improvement” of another |
| trick called Sympathetic Coins. Perhaps the inventor of that claims I copied him. I do |
| not know what to say. Often there are those that say they have a better version using |
| shell coins and moving the coins with their hands. These seem very similar to a trick |
| called “Chink-a-Chink”. The version of “Chink-a-Chink” I know uses |
| either a shell or simply an extra object. Why do these people claim theirs is original? |
| In addition, why do they say it is an improved Matrix? Again, I do not know what to |
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