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Re: houdini

From: pablo@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Pablo A Iglesias)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 12:44:31 -0500
Subject: Re: houdini
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Sender: Pablo A Iglesias <pablo@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>

In article <930226205831_555063.0_CHL78-1@CompuServe.COM> MJM@ZYLAB.MHS.CompuServe.COM (Mike Mendelson) writes:
>Thanks for refreshing my memory as to Rosabel's ID.
>Does anyone know Houdini's wife's *real* name (assuming
>Rosabel was a term of endearment unknown to anyone else)?

Bess (well, I guess that it was Elizabeth -- but she went by Bess)




>lose it.  What is she referring
>to here?  The cues of Houdini
>as he is about to perform a trick?
>Well, why would she hope something
>go wrong?  Or has she started to refer
>to the medium in second person, suddenly,
>thus hoping that *he*'d do something
>wrong?  I'm a little puzzled.  Help.

I think the latter.  She is *afraid* that Houdini really is contacting
her.  (You might be afraid too if you thought that a ghost was trying
to contact you) even though it might have been your husband.




-- 
Pablo