B. Eureka! You found it!
Sid dreamed of being a famous magician, and he actually performed magic professionally for a while. Once, he even met the wife of the famous magician, Houdini.

Sid learned how to write well by reading well written books about magic! ". . .I knew at once that I'd scratched into a mother lode. Within the next few years I read every magic book on the shelves of the main library downtown and all of the outlying branches. I was on the way to becoming a writer. I just didn't know it."