Summary
Harry Houdini: On the Art of Deception
The essay claims that spirit mediums are frauds who use tricks to deceive their clients. Houdini believed it was important to expose these scams in order to protect people from their lies. The essay was controversial at the time, but it helped raise awareness of the frauds of spiritualist mediums. It turns out that people not only burned themselves in furnaces, swallowed opium, but also did many other things, often to survive a deceiving world, and often out of pure curiosity and stupidity, they questioned the limits of their own endurance. Today, eighty years after Houdini's death, the world not only sinks into even blacker illusions, but seems unwilling to part with them.
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