| happen at that point. The question is, do you wish to be a magician or act as if you are |
| I am fascinated that a performer can be inches away from the audience, but be |
| light-years away from understanding what the audience is seeing. |
| Now that I’m on the subject, I would like to talk about other good/bad things about |
| Matrix. Matrix is constructed so that there are no extraneous moves executed during its |
| performance. In many tricks, one might perform ten actions to show one magic event. |
| Consider Matrix. There is the part where the cards are covered. In my version, this |
| requires four motions. However, if presented correctly, the audience will not associate |
| this with the “performance” of the effect. If you chat while you place the cards |
| on the coins and act as if you are merely lying the props on the table so you can |
| perform something, the audience will not see this as a part of the routine. After the |
| cards are placed on the table there is exactly two motions per magic event, the cards are |
| raised to reveal the fact that a coin has traveled from one location to another, and the |
| To a normal magician this presents a problem. The normal magician is accustomed to |
| performing moves. Thus, as there are so few moves, the average magician performs |
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