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It was a thick book that he read eagerly, discovering that most of the tricks weren't very good. However, there was one trick that caught his attention.
Someone lent me a book, a thick book, a thousand and one easy-guarded tricks. I read it eagerly cover to cover to find out that out of a thousand and one, a thousand of those tricks were not good.
— Episode: The Moth Radio Hour: The Hot Seat
Episode: The Moth Radio Hour: The Hot Seat
It was a thick book that he read eagerly, discovering that most of the tricks weren't very good. However, there was one trick that caught his attention.
Someone lent me a book, a thick book, a thousand and one easy-guarded tricks. I read it eagerly cover to cover to find out that out of a thousand and one, a thousand of those tricks were not good.
Most relied on convoluted mathematical principles that involved dealing playing cards in multiple piles, adding numbers, subtracting numbers.