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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: allows only a part of the weapon to
pass into his body, the remainder being
``kicked'' down by the recoil of a rifle,
which is fixed to a spike in the centre of
the bar, and fired by the performer's
sister.
The last act in this extraordinary
performance is the swallowing of a gold
watch. As a rule, Cliquot borrows one,
but as no timepiece was forthcoming at
the private exhibition where I saw him, he
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