This routine illustrates the principle of synergism. After you learn it, analyze how all its parts (even the minutest) are combined into a time-and-content continuum. It's systematically designed in a progressive way: each discrete effect is successively better. There's culminative improvement and step-by-step enhancement – not only in terms of overall deception, but in virtue of its "theater."
This was the original version of what Jon later called Ladies on the Loose.
