#sleighofhand — Public Fediverse posts
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"After shuffling, I dealt four hands, arranged as the points of a square. I chose a hand for myself and selected one for him. My cards added up to nothing—king-high nothing. 'Is that fair?' Jay said, picking up his cards, waiting a beat, and returning them to the table, one by one—the coup de grâce. 'I. Don’t. Think. So.' One, two, three, four aces." —Mark Singer for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/04/05/secrets-of-the-magus?src=longreads #magic #magicians #sleighofhand #profiles #legends #longreads
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"After shuffling, I dealt four hands, arranged as the points of a square. I chose a hand for myself and selected one for him. My cards added up to nothing—king-high nothing. 'Is that fair?' Jay said, picking up his cards, waiting a beat, and returning them to the table, one by one—the coup de grâce. 'I. Don’t. Think. So.' One, two, three, four aces." —Mark Singer for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/04/05/secrets-of-the-magus?src=longreads #magic #magicians #sleighofhand #profiles #legends #longreads
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"After shuffling, I dealt four hands, arranged as the points of a square. I chose a hand for myself and selected one for him. My cards added up to nothing—king-high nothing. 'Is that fair?' Jay said, picking up his cards, waiting a beat, and returning them to the table, one by one—the coup de grâce. 'I. Don’t. Think. So.' One, two, three, four aces." —Mark Singer for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/04/05/secrets-of-the-magus?src=longreads #magic #magicians #sleighofhand #profiles #legends #longreads
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"After shuffling, I dealt four hands, arranged as the points of a square. I chose a hand for myself and selected one for him. My cards added up to nothing—king-high nothing. 'Is that fair?' Jay said, picking up his cards, waiting a beat, and returning them to the table, one by one—the coup de grâce. 'I. Don’t. Think. So.' One, two, three, four aces." —Mark Singer for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/04/05/secrets-of-the-magus?src=longreads #magic #magicians #sleighofhand #profiles #legends #longreads
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"After shuffling, I dealt four hands, arranged as the points of a square. I chose a hand for myself and selected one for him. My cards added up to nothing—king-high nothing. 'Is that fair?' Jay said, picking up his cards, waiting a beat, and returning them to the table, one by one—the coup de grâce. 'I. Don’t. Think. So.' One, two, three, four aces." —Mark Singer for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/04/05/secrets-of-the-magus?src=longreads #magic #magicians #sleighofhand #profiles #legends #longreads