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I just updated “The Incredible Story of Deft” with the new foreword by J. Scott Perry . Many thanks, Scott!
Scott’s enduring interest in the book is what spurred me to publish the revised and expanded 2nd edition.
Scott is one of the readers of the original article who managed to snag one of the very few copies in existence of the 2017 print-on-demand 1st edition of the book when it was available through Amazon.
A few months ago, in a chat, he expressed an interest in a new copy, as his original printed copy has seen some wear and tear from being handed to colleagues.
“𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒇𝒕 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒖𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒔, 𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒅-𝒖𝒑 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔. 𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒍-𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒙𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔, 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒚 𝒃𝒖𝒛𝒛𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔, 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒚 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒊𝒂, 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒂 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏. 𝒀𝒆𝒕, 𝒃𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆. 𝑨𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍, 𝒘𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒆𝒇𝒕.”
Scott’s complete foreword is part of the Free Sample, which also contains the Preface and three short chapters.
