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I read the other day, something that has become one of my favorite facts now. And that is that Harry Houdini, the

famous illusionist and escape artist was actually really good friends with Arthur Conan Doyle,

the famed writer of Sherlock Holmes, amongst other famous novels.

And I really like that fact, I think because it gives me this feeling of,

I don't really know how to put it.

You might have better words for it than me.

Sort of like a reality check, I suppose.

It puts history into context for me a little bit.

Sometimes you can imagine these famous figures as existing in isolation. You never really think about them

interconnecting but then you think well they existed in the same time in the same place so

why couldn't they interact into mingle?

And it's really interesting to me because they both formed a friendship around their love of the mystical, the occult and especially spiritualism,

and this idea of the afterlife.

But they had radically different ideas about its legitimacy,

which I guess is kind of exemplary of friendship,

overall, isn't it?

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