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2 Post author: CWG 15 August 2013 03:31PM

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Comment author: pragmatist 16 August 2013 05:36:08PM *  2 points [-]

Well, there's this. Not an example of mentalism, but a card trick from earlier in his career. Everything in it is basically sleight of hand and misdirection, but there are so many different techniques in there, strung together with such precision, that it would be extremely difficult to replicate without a huge amount of training.

I don't know if this is the kind of thing Desrtopa was talking about.