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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Houdini Magic Seance Deck (KS)
« on: November 04, 2013, 02:53:04 PM »Yuo, that AoS is definitely a winner. Very well thought through. Ars, that's a great Houdini quote you have on the back design, may I ask why you chose that particular quote?
Also, why Buster Keaton as the joker? Wasn't Houdini affiliated more with his father than buster himself?
Houdini and his wife toured with the Keaton family in a medicine show. I chose Buster as the Joker because according to legend it was Houdini that first called him "Buster" after a particularly hard spill as a child that he took in stride.
I chose the quote because it seems to embody Houdini's attitudes while still being ambiguous. "My brain is the key that sets me free" I think is meant as a statement that willpower and problem solving can overcome all obstacles, but it was also Houdini that was locking himself inside of these elaborate chains and devices. Specifically in regard to the Spritiualist movement of the turn of the century, I think it can also mean that rational thought sets him free from superstition and belief in the "spirit fakers" who were rampant and exploitive.
Thanks again!