S.W Erdnase

[Simon NABET]

Salut a tous

Je cherche le surnom de S.W Erdnase?

Quelqu'un peut il m'aider?

Merci

Simon.

[Thomas]

J'ai trouvé son vrai nom (ce qui n'est pas la question, je sais, mais cela peut-être une piste) :

E.S. Andrews, qui est en fait S.W Erdnase à l'envers !

[Plick (Pierre TLLFR)]

Qui sait son vrai nom ?... c'est le mystere d'Erdnase.

Je me permets de citer un passage du commentaire de la BBC sur l'emission consacre a ce grand point d'interrogation de l'histoire magique :

"99 years ago, a man calling himself S.W.Erdnase published the classic textbook on sleight of hand with cards. (...) Hugh Levinson - himself a keen card manipulator - investigates the work's appeal and delves into the mystery of its authorship.

The writer used the name Erdnase as a pseudonym, and with good reason. He was, it seems, an accomplished cheat, who had fleeced many a sucker at a hand of poker. He was also evidently an educated man, who could describe the low wiles of the hustler with elegance and wit. So who was he?

Magicians realised many years ago that if you reversed the name S.W.Erdnase, you came up with E.S.Andrews. But there are no card cheats on record with that name. In the 1940s, the author, polymath and magician Martin Gardner first suggested that Erdnase was actually Milton Franklin Andrews, a notorious fraudster and card cheat from New England."

Pour lire l'article complet, allez a http://www.bbc.co.uk/factsheets/the_erdnase_mystery/index.shtml

Amicalement,

Plick.