| space. The last coin is not treated with such dignity. The last card is raised to show |
| that it somehow disappeared by itself to appear under the upper left card. As stated |
| elsewhere in this book, this suggests that more than one method is used. |
| Another problem is that the business of covering and uncovering the coins shows the |
| performer is directly responsible for the transposition of the coin. I believe this reduces |
| the magic effect and is an effort of these performers to claim more attention. The result |
| is that the effect seems more juggling than magic. |
| The use of the jumbo coin finish also reduces the overall effect. While it is very |
| surprising, I believe it reduces the Matrix routine to a device to confuse the audience |
| for the purpose of producing a big coin. Here again I feel the magic is reduced for the |
| audience knows their attention was distracted while the big coin was inserted into the |
| performance. They will feel that if they had a chance to see it over again, they could |
| detect where the big coin came from. In general, with this handling, the audience may |
| have that overall feeling that if they had a chance to see it all over again, they would |
| I suspect that if one were to talk to the audience after such a performance, the audience |
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