Boing Boing strikes again. Erdnase this time.

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Re: Boing Boing strikes again. Erdnase this time.

Postby Richard Kaufman » July 2nd, 2015, 11:18 pm

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"Genii Magazine, perhaps the magic world’s leading publication, lent a significant amount of space in the fall of 2011 to the Erdnase theory developed and advanced by David Alexander, a West Coast magician and private detective. Alexander had come to the conclusion that Erdnase was not a petty criminal or a passionate eccentric but a well-established and well-educated mining engineer named Wilbur Edgerton Sanders. His evidence, though circumstantial, was compelling enough both for Genii and the Wall Street Journal and BBC. There is a powerful literary satisfaction to be derived from Alexander’s theory -- Erdnase living a double life, as solid burgher and cardsharp, playing a nimble and nihilistic game with identity. For a master theoretician of deception, such a life would be almost a requirement (and a tale worthy of inclusion on Borges’s A Universal History of Infamy)."
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Re: Boing Boing strikes again. Erdnase this time.

Postby P.T.Widdle » July 3rd, 2015, 8:53 am

"perhaps" ?

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Re: Boing Boing strikes again. Erdnase this time.

Postby Leonard Hevia » July 3rd, 2015, 11:35 am

I scanned the article and did not see Vernon's name mentioned anywhere. A historical dissertation on Erdnase and TEATCT and no mention of the Professor...tsk, tsk.

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Re: Boing Boing strikes again. Erdnase this time.

Postby Richard Kaufman » July 3rd, 2015, 1:10 pm

The writer only knows what he reads. It is possible to write about The Expert at the Card Table and not mention Dai Vernon. Not saying that it's good, just that it's possible.
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Re: Boing Boing strikes again. Erdnase this time.

Postby Jonathan Townsend » July 3rd, 2015, 2:31 pm

Leonard Hevia wrote:... A historical dissertation on Erdnase and TEATCT and no mention of the Professor...tsk, tsk.


Certainly post-publication history as regards this community.
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Re: Boing Boing strikes again. Erdnase this time.

Postby Bob Coyne » July 3rd, 2015, 6:04 pm

Not to be too picky, but the video shows what looks like a strike second -- that's a technique that Erdnase doesn't describe!


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