Max Beerbohm, an author in the 1890s and early twentieth century, told a tale of Enoch Soames
who made a deal with the devil to visit the Reading Room in the British Museum on 3 June
1997. Famed magician Teller recounts what happened at ten past two on the designated day, a
day that Teller has been waiting and planning for for thirty-four and a half years.
In other words, anyone in the Round Reading Room of the British Museum at ten past two on
June 3, 1997, would be able to verify Beerbohm’s memoir, and see an authentic,
guaranteed, proven ghost.
DEBUT
“A Memory of the Nineteen-Nineties,” in The Atlantic Monthly,November
1997.
VARIANTS
Debut. “A Memory of the Nineteen-Nineties,” in The Atlantic Monthly,November 1997.
In other words, anyone in the Round Reading Room of the British Museum at ten past two on
June 3, 1997, would be able to verify Beerbohm’s memoir, and see an authentic,
guaranteed, proven ghost.
1 English variant