The use of "the escape artist"

Like Houdini who pitted himself against self-induced calamity, but unlike Houdini, I had no choice. Escape was not an art but a necessity.The precious title can very well expand into a book wherein my hidden and darker life endured. So, my friends if you can live under Reagan, you can live under Trump. Just figure these are blips in history, they, like homeless vagrant bands, will be extinct from their own machinations.