Split Personality

I'm happy to say that I never wanted to be a magician when I was a kid, calling myself The Great Crowtherini, or something of the sort. As I've mentioned before, I did, however, yearn to be a trapeze artist, which was far less safe. You can't break your neck pulling handkerchiefs from your sleeve. I did have one friend who was obsessed with becoming an escape artist, and spent all his time devising elaborate stunts he never brought to fruition. He was the "bad kid" in the neighborhood, and wound up in jail for auto theft when he was eighteen. As far as I know he never succeeded in putting what skills he'd acquired to practical use. As Dave Barry says, I'm not making this up.