Three Things: The Great Escape Edition
2013 March 25
This week, I’m interested in stories of great escapes. The kind that seem impossible, like those the great Houdini pulled off, or escaping from a two-dimensional existence. Perhaps you’d like to join me? Here are three such escapes to get your pens moving.
Pere Borrell del Caso, Escaping Criticism, 1874. Oil on canvas. Collection Banco de España, Madrid.
“Houdini and the water torture cell,” 1913. From The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920, Library of Congress.
Bob May, extricate, 2012. Collage. Via flickr.
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