An idea I had between classes - A young, jewish, Russian magician in 1882 adopts the concept of transcendentalism, which is waning out in the United States, and makes it his life philosophy. When the May laws are put in place by Alexander III, restricting the jewish people of Russia, the magician decides to make pilgrimage to the United States to the grave of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who has recently died (April 1882), and live freely there. With him, he takes a childhood friend who has recently been betrothed to an obsessive husband and they escape the country using his knowledge of slight of hand and her intelligence, living out their own offbeat love story under fake names.
(Also a side note - I ate an entire bag of Doritos during a physics test and that was pretty inspiring.)
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