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Speech by Houdini, the great Mystifier
Can the Dead Speak to the Living?
“The first step towards the lunatic asylum is the Ouija board. Anyone who claims to be able to talk with the dead is either a self-deluded person or a cheat. Can the dead speak to the living? I say they do not. I am particularly well qualified to discuss this subject, as I have always been interested in spiritualistic and psychic phenomena. I have personally known most of the leading spiritualists of the last quarter of a century and it is a strange fact that they have been intensely interested in me.”
Rowland stepped back from the canvas to survey his work. Daniel Cartwright was singing some dreadful French ballad from behind his own easel. The American was, of course, both artist and model.
Both Clyde and Row
