![]() “I learned all that from my brother, when I was a kid,” he relates. He shows the card players some tricks, dealing to the elder warden a full house, to the young one a flush, and to himself four aces. Two of them, Bill and Bert, are wardens, while the third, Harry Gosling, is a young man about twenty years old, due to be hanged this very night. In a prison’s death-row cell, three men are seated at a table playing poker. Example #3įrom Blood on the Stage, 1950-1975: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection by Amnon Kabatchnik It is him who tells him the greatest secret of his notorious art. He meets the card sharp when he was out in the Midwest after a long journey. This book comprises a true story of a popular magician of that time, Dai Vernon, who is out to find out the greatest card sharp of the times when the Great Depression was ruling the roost in the United States. Example #2įrom The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America’s Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist by Karl Johnson A card sharp or ‘card shark’ is a skilled person who manages to manipulate cards to defeat his opponents. The poets imply that the world is like a great sea full of different types of fishes where sharks set out to search for their prey. These lines use the phrase as a metaphor for cheaters or and clever people. There are many kinds of fish that swim in the seaĪnd of those troupers and trouts and dolphins and whales ![]() Card Shark by Bob Dylan, Taylor Zachary Goldsmith
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