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The cut-and-restored rope is a restoration: a rope
is cut into two pieces, the two pieces are tied together,
the knot vanishes, leaving one piece of rope. A newspaper
is torn to bits. The magician rubs the pieces together
and the newspaper becomes whole. A woman is sawn into
two separate parts (an apparent hemicorporectomy), and
then magically rejoined. A card is torn in fourths and
then restored piece by piece to a normal state. Restorations
put something back into the state it once was. (wikipedia)
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