| Chapter 11 Chris Faye Version |
| Chris Faye is a friend from the southern part of Minnesota. He is a businessperson that |
| loves magic. While being very capable he does not have the time to practice |
| extensively and developed the handling for Matrix presented in this chapter. As you |
| read it you may wonder why I give it such a prominent place in this book. The answer |
| is that this method is startlingly simple but very, very effective. Chris had told me |
| about this routine long ago. However, I did not know how it played until I worked |
| with L&L Publishing and presented this routine in one of the sessions. When I saw it |
| performed it looked very, very good. Chris is not a magician in the sense that he |
| performs for others but just shares an interesting trick with friends now and then. |
| Thus, this version works well for a guy dressed in a suit and carries an attach'e case. |
| Let’s begin by discussing the environment and then show how it is done. |
| During a business meeting, the subject of magic might come up. Chris will say that |
| there is an interesting experiment with four pennies. Then he reaches into his |
| attaché case and extracts four business cards held by a bulldog spring clip. He asks |
| if he could borrow four pennies. The spectator usually has them and reaches into a |
| pocket to provide them. Chris puts his attaché case on the table and forms a square |
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