Fictitious Biography
Matrix was born in Japan, the eldest of seven children of the Reverend William Miller Bush, a Seventh-day Adventist missionary. He resided in Japan until the end of the Second World War, where he learned the secrets of the conjuring art and worked as assistant to the famous Japanese magician Tenkai.
Presumably it was in Japan that he met Ms. Eisei Toshiyori, and where their daughter Iva Matrix was born. Iva accompanied Dr. Matrix through most of his public life, acting as assistant and manager in most of his enterprises. The author of the fictitious narrative pretended to be romantically interested in Iva, thus explaining his continuing interest in Dr. Matrix's activities.
Dr. Matrix was often persecuted by establishment authorities, and many times had to change abode and live under assumed names, with appropriate matching changed appearances. He was accused several times of fraud. He reportedly died in a duel against a certain Ivan Skavinsky Skavar, in circumstances as obscure and dubious as most of his career.
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