A Twist of the Knife
“He liked looking down, through the holes in the metal gridding of the walkway, at the sinister, shadowy dark green water fifty feet below. And he was fascinated by the escapologist, the Great Omani, whose act (which the strange man repeated hourly, on the hour) was to tip a gallon of petrol into the sea below, drop a lighted taper to create a flaming circle, then tie himself up in a straitjacket, jump off the side of the pier into the flames, disappear below the surface, then emerge a minute or... so later, triumphantly holding the straitjacket above his head, to a small ripple of applause.
From an early age Rod had always been obsessed with trying to work things out; there were so many mysteries in the world, and the Great Omani’s escape act was one of the first to consume him. What, he wondered, was so clever about escaping, when you had tied yourself up in the first place? Now, if someone else had tied him up, that would be very different!
But he never got a chance to study the act for long.MoreLess
From an early age Rod had always been obsessed with trying to work things out; there were so many mysteries in the world, and the Great Omani’s escape act was one of the first to consume him. What, he wondered, was so clever about escaping, when you had tied yourself up in the first place? Now, if someone else had tied him up, that would be very different!
But he never got a chance to study the act for long.MoreLess
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