The Woven Accordion Squeeze

I trotted along the baseboards after my grand floor slide and ran right into a folded paper accordion lantern sitting by the magazine rack! Its circular bamboo rims were collapsed together like an oversized pancake. Naturally, I couldn't leave all those compressed folds squished flat! I wedged my boots into the grooved floor seam, hooked both curved hands into the top wire spreader ring, and hauled upward with a sharp grunt. Shhhk-pop! The patterned pleated paper expanded outward like an inflating honeycomb, lifting me clean off the floorboards before locking securely onto its twin brass support struts!