| Matrix to one of his customers. I was perplexed. Why would he apologize for that? |
| Then, why would he even tell me about it? Fortunately, he went on to explain. He |
| said he had had a gig in some nightclub called “Dance Your *** Off”. He was |
| doing close-up there and one of the tricks he was doing was Matrix. After doing the |
| trick at a particular table, one member of the audience asked, “How you do |
| that?” Paul said that he explained to this person that magic was a secret art and |
| magicians did not reveal their secrets to those not dedicated to the art. Then the person |
| reached inside his coat, pulled out a semiautomatic 45 pistol, laid it on the table and |
| asked, “How you do that?” To this, Paul responded by explaining how one |
| picks up coins under the cards and so on. |
| Another event occurred closer to home. Sue, known as “Suzanne the Magician” |
| was one of my students in Minneapolis. She is a very talented woman, learned some |
| magic from me, and has become a serious professional close-up magician. At the time |
| of this event, Sue was working in one of the classiest places in the Minneapolis area. It |
| was kind of dance place with a 12-piece orchestra, about 10 bars around the room, a |
| class restaurant next door, and a small quiet bar between the two. Sue worked in that |
| small quiet bar and it was named Sue’s Bar. One evening she does Matrix for a |
| man at the bar. He looks perplexed, pulls out a 5-dollar bill, lays it on the table and |
| says, “Do it again.” She does it again. He looks perplexed, pulls out a 10-dollar |
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