ATDTDA (1) pg 23: Three Card Monte

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More Three Card Monte:

http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Science/Entertainment/Three-Card-Monte-4943.shtml

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=related&search_query=Monte%20ace%20three

http://www.southendpress.org/2004/items/TROW

http://www.scoundrelsforum.com/wiki/ScoundrelsFilm

And of course, there's always Loonies on Leave:

First Nut (or maybe Keeper): Got an amazing deal for you here, 
American? I thought so, always tell a face from home, saaay, like 
your suit there there, go far enough up the glacier 'n' nobody'd be 
able to see ya! Well, yes now, I know how you feel about there 
street-vendors keep coming by, it's the same old three-card-monte 
on the sidewalk [trucks across the stage for a while, back and forth, 
waving his finger in the air, singing "Three-card monte on the side, 
walk," over and over in the same obsessive monotone, for as many 
repetitions as he can get away with] and you can spot right away 
what's wrong, every one promises ya somethin' for nothin', right? 
yes now oddly enough, that's the main objection engineers and 
scientists have always had to the idea of [lowering his voice] 
perpetual motion or as we like to call it Entropy Management---
here, here's our card---well, sure, they've got a point. . . . 

Gravity's Rainbow, pg 263 (though it's probably 262 in your 
copy and of course you want to dive into this section fore & aft, 
it's just loaded with all sorts of juicy goodies and interminable
distractions. . . .)