Word: escapologist
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...sharing a 3-m by 3-m cell with up to five inmates, 59-year-old Sobhraj is "polite, calm and confident that nothing is going to happen to him," says Superintendent Rana. Shrestha, however, is convinced that this time there is no way out even for the master escapologist. "I saw him and he saw me and I saw something click in him, some fear, some guilt," he says. "Everything in life comes full circle, even for criminals. We could never afford to travel abroad to get him. But, eventually, he came back...
...Monroe was a black- draped table laden with miscellaneous memorabilia: a manila envelope containing a letter from Arthur Conan Doyle, two pairs of handcuffs, a selection of lockpicks, a yellowed photograph. Monroe's task: to contact, on the 60th anniversary of his death, the ghost of Harry Houdini, master escapologist, prestidigitator and Appleton's most celebrated son. While Monroe writhed and jerked, it must be noted, a block away the sign outside the Valley Bank effortlessly blinked out the message: WELCOME HOME HARRY HOUDINI HAPPY HALLOWEEN...
...From It All", An Escapologist's Notebook is the pseudo-diary of a person who tried to get away from the fact of life. An escapologist, the author tells us, is "a person who by looks the facts of life in the back of the neck or by sheer force of the imagination conjures them out of existence or urns away from them". Bullfrog, a young English journalist, made his hold attempt to escape these facts of life, and because he failed, because he soon forgot exactly what it was that he was trying to get away from, he wrote...
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