Tag Archives: Harry Houdini

too many people

Yet their brows touched heaven. Islam brought them to their feet in this first of the Arab awakenings. Islam created Arabism, and from the start, the power of one was the power of the other. The strength of islam is … Continue reading

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crazy about harry

by Art Chantry: the most brilliant houdini poster ever made…

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suspicious models of vision: invisible and anonymous

Like H.G. Wells’s The Invisible Man where a scientist discovers a means of making himself invisible, and in the process becomes an insane murderer. Invisibility. Anonymity. Walter Benjamin insisted on the fundamental invisibility of the crowd in Baudelaire’s poetry of … Continue reading

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sherlock hovers: on the edge of the unknown

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) THIS is a 1922 photograph of sir arthur conan doyle with a ghost hovering over him. i wonder what conan doyle’s main literary creation – sherlock holmes – would have made of such an image? … Continue reading

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alien seeding: explaining the singular life

Art Chantry on H.P. Lovecraft…. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): Wilum H. Pugmire, noted Lovecraft scholar and writer, sent me this photo a number of years ago. H. P. Lovecraft lived as a pauper from a Victorian era (though he lived … Continue reading

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VANISHING POINTS: A DRIFTER’S ESCAPE

In America you’ll get food to eat Won’t have to run through the jungle And scuff up your feet You’ll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day It’s great to be an American…( Randy Newman, Sail Away) Dustin … Continue reading

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DOUBLE BOGEY ON ADULTHOOD

Feeling both grown-up and not grown-up is a timeless, ageless, human state, explored in poetry and fiction for generations. It’s currently being explored by a generation with miserable job prospects and good access to birth control, that’s all. Its called … Continue reading

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BEHIND THE SMOKE AND MIRRORS

Mina Crandon, best known as “Margery”, was a Boston medium who found herself embroiled in one of the most bitter controversies in American psychic research in the 1920′s.Regardless though, she was perhaps the greatest rival of magician Harry Houdini as … Continue reading

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WHEN HARRY MET HUBCAP SALLY

“Copengahen is the epitome of modern summitting; a long session, a huge cast earnestly discussing what there is no chance of agreeing, to reach compromises everyone will then ignore, promising to avoid doing what all decry and will continue to … Continue reading

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