Ah, yes. This is beautiful.
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1319378044386148353
Randi had such a tremendous sense of awe and wonder—it would have thrilled him beyond measure if the phenomena he spent his life debunking had turned out to be real.
I once had the chance—at the end of a long and lovely conversation—to ask a good friend of Randi's, who'd been a paranormal researcher before becoming a debunker, how she thought he'd respond if she brought him actual proof it was true.
Her face lit up. It wasn't a question she'd ever been asked before. I could see her imagining the scene in her head—the reflexive skepticism, the inevitable lengthy testing—and then emerging, somehow, on the other side.
Randi's gone. He's not waiting for us somewhere. I'm nearly as certain of that as he was himself up until a day or two ago. But still. What a thing to imagine.
By the way, as someone who once spent a couple of years alongside @tiltmom researching James Randi's life, I am very very pleased to report that his Times obit is liberally festooned with tall tales and bunkum. nytimes.com/2020/10/21/obi…
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