The Prestige

14

I step forward to the footlights, and in the full glare of their light face you directly.

I say, “Look at my hands. There is nothing concealed within them.”

I hold them up, raising my palms for you to see, spreading my fingers so as to prove nothing is gripped secretly between them. I now perform my last trick, and produce a bunch of faded paper flowers from the hands you know to be empty.