Thomas

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Harry Houdini, the famous illusionist and escape artist, was actually really good friends with Arthur Conan Doyle, the famed writer of Sherlock Holmes, amongst other famous novels.

And I really like that fact, I think because

It gives me this feeling of... I don't really know how to put it.

You might have better words for it than me.

Sort of like a reality check, I suppose.

Like it puts history into context for me a little bit.

Sometimes you can imagine these famous figures as existing in isolation.

But then you think, well, they existed in the same time, in the same place, so why couldn't they interact, intermingle?

their love of the mystical, the occult, and especially spiritualism, and this idea of the afterlife.

How two people can be so different and have radically different views about the world and yet for some reason they just come together and it works.

is that eventually their differences would mean that they have a pretty bitter falling out.

He was a true believer in make-believe, which some people find quite

Shocking, I suppose, considering he is the creator of what has come to be known almost as the archetype of logical deduction, Sherlock Holmes.

But if you read a lot of Sherlock Holmes, then you will see infusions of the mystical in his work.

Whilst Harry Houdini, he was very interested in this world and its ideas, but

but in a more distant way.

And Houdini, during a certain part of his career, did this very openly, publicly.

He saw it as a personal attack against his own beliefs.