Source: The Gazette
December 3, 2010
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" Thompson won and lost millions as he golfed and gambled his way across the country, carrying his clubs, a .45, and a suitcase of cash. He killed five men and married five very young women, conned Al Capone, and traded card tricks with Houdini." Beside, you gotta love a guy who says, "Nobody ever got hustled who didn't ask for it one way or another." Cook's 248-pager, titled Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bets on Everything.
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In the end, although he lived to be 82, Titanic Thompson's decline came about because "America changed and there was no more room for such a man." I read it as a cautionary tale. Some of you may detect analogies to our magic world. Nevertheless, benign cons enjoy reading about big cons. Magicians love swindlers of every pedigree. Meanwhile, magicians these days worry about becoming obsolete, irrelevant, and having no rooms wherein to work ... or, worse, no room to be what they are or pretend to be.
Source: Genii January 2011
On the Slant
Jon Racherbaumer
mardi 21 décembre 2010
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