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Matrix again someone said, “I have no idea how that happens, could you do it
again?” I said sure and did it again. Then someone said, “You know, I could
watch that a hundred times and I wouldn’t have a clue.” Then I went on with
other tricks.
 
As I write this, I am reminded of sitting at a magic lecture and listening to the lecturer
explaining how deficient Matrix was as a trick. Apparently, the lecturer did not know
that I invented the effect nor did he realize that I was in the third row of the audience.
This person explained that a vastly superior way of doing the effect was using an extra
coin and sliding the coins around with the heels of your hand brushing the surface of
the close-up pad, creating the illusion that coins were magically moving from one
location to another. As I think of this I wonder how this method would fare in the two
situations I have just talked about. I know, beyond a shadow of doubt that method
would not have survived.
 
Here is another story that brings home another point. At one time, I was a dealer
selling books at magic conventions. My sales technique was quite simple, show them
a trick from one of my books, fool them with it and tell them it is in one of the books I
am selling. Often magicians bring their wives to the convention with them and I must
cope with selling the book to the wife as well. On one occasion, I was presenting