In response to this, your brain will invent new memories.”So, Harry Houdini meets Memento? When we meet him, in the present day of the tale, he has learned that he has just gotten some bad news: ”Yours is a rare condition,” said, seeming almost excited, “in which the damage that is being done to your brain does not destroy cognitive function but instead affects your brain’s ability to store and process memories. He tells a tale of Houdini, vaudevillian superstar, greatest magician of his time, escape artist extraordinaire and, maybe, an international spy. I killed him twice.Stephen Galloway, the award-winning author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, takes on a legendary real-life character and tries to make some magic with his lesser known history.
What no one knows, save for myself and one other person who likely died long ago, is that I didn’t just kill Harry Houdini.
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