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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: as well as those resulting from our own
observations.
One of the experiments consists in having
a man or several men hold a cane or
a billiard cue horizontally above the head,
as shown in Fig. 1. On pushing with one
hand, the girl forces back two or three
men, who, in unstable equilibrium and
under the oblique action of the thrust
exerted, are obliged to fall back. This
first experiment is so elementary and
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