| Some years later, I was lecturing at a convention somewhere in Ohio and Ger Cooper, |
| from Germany, was lecturing there. He taught a trick with four cards and four coins. I |
| cannot remember if he called it Matrix or not. I was sitting in the back of the room. |
| Anyway, when he introduced the effect and began to teach it. As the audience |
| realized what he was teaching, every head in the room turned to look at me in |
| recognition of the fact that the lecturer was teaching my effect. He was not using my |
| method for the first coin transfer however. He used what I refer to as the European |
| Transfer Move. This was but the first time I sat in a room while someone else taught |
| I have sat through many lectures in which Matrix has been either taught or ripped. The |
| trick is ripped for a variety of reasons. Sometimes the lecturer says that Matrix has |
| flaws that his method corrects and is superior to the Matrix method. Often I have been |
| sitting in the front row when this happens. I simply sit there numb to what is going on. |
| I do not know what to say. Occasionally people come up to me and ask what I think of |
| it all. I tell them I do not know what to think. |
| On one occasion, the lecturer asked whom that person was sitting in the front row that |
| just stared straight ahead when he presented Matrix. I was told that he was told that is |
| the person that invented Matrix. |
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