The Professor

"...Modernity in the great human

skills and understandings often spring from, or is mostly inspired by

at least, a single individual of unsurpassing insight and creativity: the

twentieth century character of physics comes from Einstein, biological

thought from Darwin, modern fiddle playing from Pagannini . . . well,

we in conjuring, particularly in the poetry department called "close-up

card magic", have our one and only Dai Vernon..."

Cy Enfield, Intro to Inner Secrets of Card Magic