Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.
There were really a bunch of old, old magic hobbyists at the time, some of them who actually had known [Harry] Houdini. You had to be 14 to go to these meetings, and he snuck me in at 12. It was glorious.
No one has the Houdini school of composition.
Houdini used to pull rabbits out of a hat, but he never tried to make a living out of selling them when he had pulled them out of the hat
I think if you would have cut Houdini with a knife, blood wouldn't come out, PR would.
To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angoulême or to the editor of The Comics Journal. "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in.
As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.
There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.
