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While chatting with Mel, I executed this
move. He gasped and put his hand on my
arm. Then he said that the move was so
startling that he felt as if his heart skipped
a beat. My primary point here is that the
move generated an emotional response
right there on the spot. The only
difference from previous handlings was the
addition of this new natural handling. The
Level of Believable Action had been
increased. The strange thing is that he was
not fooled but knew exactly what was going
on. Not only did it look good but generated
an emotional response when the coin was
shown gone.
Many years passed and I found myself
hanging out with Pat Umphery, a friend from
Minneapolis. He worked in a magic shop
selling magic at one of the large malls in
town. I would occasionally visit him.
Sometimes during these occasions other
magicians would stop in to chat. He would
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always have me show this snap/drop
move to these people. They would always
react very strongly and often emotionally.
You might think that I would have used this
in my performances. However, I did not.
It was a move, at the time, I had no place
for. It was not fooling anyone. It just
looked good. As time passed it did find a
spot in one of my tricks. It is now used in
a trick I call Osmosis. In this effect
silver dollars are apparently pulled
through a transparent cloth. The move that
was getting this attention was used to
apparently drop coins to the surface of a
table during performance. Here, the move
did not get any reaction at all. You see,
because of the move, the audience believed
a coin was simply being dropped to the
table. From the audience perspective the
hand dropping the coin to the table had
nothing to do with extracting the next coin
through the cloth. However, the use of the
move enabled me to extract three coins
rapidly one at a time from a cloth
covering them.
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