Harbin: Eight inches of thread
Posted: March 13th, 2017, 3:49 pm
One of my very early magic books was Robert Harbin's, "How to be a Wizard". (Oldbourne Press, London, 1957)
Harbin wrote something in a chapter on escapology that caught my attention and which puzzles me to this day: "I could teach you a way to tie up a person with eight inches of button thread, and he'd never escape until he was cut loose. Perhaps some day I'll reveal this ingenious method of securing a person...."
I would guess that the person's thumbs are tied behind their back, although that's hardly ingenious. Did Harbin ever explain? Or are there any other ideas as to what he may have been thinking?
Harbin wrote something in a chapter on escapology that caught my attention and which puzzles me to this day: "I could teach you a way to tie up a person with eight inches of button thread, and he'd never escape until he was cut loose. Perhaps some day I'll reveal this ingenious method of securing a person...."
I would guess that the person's thumbs are tied behind their back, although that's hardly ingenious. Did Harbin ever explain? Or are there any other ideas as to what he may have been thinking?