Can a newspaper stand upright? Try. Expand an entire newspaper. Hold the opposite corners: one hand above and the other below. Pull the paper so that the center did not care. The bottom corner a little bend. Once you remove one hand and the newspaper will keep the balance.
Valery Postolati. "Merry magic" (M, "Panorama", 1992)
The young magician-illusionist
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