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Figure 11-9. Cut-and-Restored String. Middle a line and hang it over your right hand. Pick up the nearer
end with your left hand and move the two hands together (A). Seeming to place the middle bight of the
line alongside the end in your left hand, you actually let the bight slip off your right hand as you raise a
“false middle”—a bight brought up from the left end (B). Cut this bight at its middle (C), drop the right
end down, and you will appear to have two equal-length pieces of line (D). With scissors, cut the right
upper end close to your fingers, then “throw the other end away.” Before, you had four ends, thus two
pieces; now you have only two ends, thus one piece, or so the patter goes as you show the one whole piece.
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