One of the semi-magic tricks Peter used to occasionally do:<\/p>\n
He’d say that his nose was out of alignment or something, and needed an adjustment, like a chiropractic adjustment.<\/p>\n
He would put his hands together palm to palm, as if praying, but with his nose between the index fingers.<\/p>\n
Then he would bend his hands to one side a little several times, as if twisting his nose slightly around an invisible axis coming straight out of his face; he’d indicate that he was taking out the slack. Then, one last sudden sharp bend\/twist, accompanied by a loud cracking sound.<\/p>\n
The trick was that he had one thumb (hidden by the other fingers) in his mouth in such a way that the thumbnail was under an upper front tooth; at the moment of bending his hands, he would snap the thumbnail out from under the tooth, making a noise.<\/p>\n
When done well—and Peter did it well—this trick can be remarkably effective, and Peter took great delight in performing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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