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Big Stores could take in as much as $100,000 at a time—a huge sum back then. Top practitioners became famous, like Joseph “Yellow Kid” Weil. “I have never cheated any honest men, only rascals,” Weil once told the writer Saul Bellow. “They wanted something for nothing. I gave them nothing for something.”
Zeke Faux • Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
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That photo, like Kellar's bold visit to the Egyptian Hall stage, wouldn't have shown him very much. It was actually the little tool that made the eyelets, and the felt-covered rollers-two simple additions that never looked very impressive backstage-that had made all the difference.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
The man I had come to see was Danny Garcia, one of the world’s most prominent consultants for magic television shows. Danny, an incredibly innovative creator, has, like Doug McKenzie, been a mainstay in the consulting community for more than a decade.
Ian Frisch • Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians
guy is probably the most evil, sneaky, manipulative bastard I have ever seen in operation. The thing is, this guy comes in totally under the radar, and that is why he is so dangerous. His subtlety is so amazing that before you know it, you are qualifying yourself to him and he has you right where he wants you. And the thing is, he does it with both
... See moreNeil Strauss • The Game
many of his effects were willed to his brother, and almost all of his secrets are known today.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
fiat money even really is: It is a fungible pan-bank liability.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
