A Dumb Leper

    Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Graham Greene
The Quiet American
1955

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Showin' Me a Hand

I was the pimp's main prophet i kept everything cool

Just a backstreet gambler with the luck to lose

And when the heat came down it was left on the ground

The devil appeared like Jesus through the steam in the street

Showin me a hand i knew even the cops couldn't beat

It's Hard to be a Saint in the City

(Springsteen)

Bruce Springsteen

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Mob City

Mob City
Frank Darabont
2013

Such a Sweet Hurry

           When yours comes for you lad, you won't be thinking she's a straw witch. No, you'll have your mind on but one thing, and she will take your hand in hers and be in such a sweet hurry to take you to a private place. But when you reach to her, her thighs will be as smoke, her breasts no more than the wind passing, and it is only her lips you will find, with a snow taste to them, cold as pebbled snow, and with a quick and clever suck she takes your wind away, and your murderer's soul.

John D MacDonald
The Straw Witch
1964

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Trap of solid gold blog

Meet the Devil

............... time to meet the devil.

Only God Forgives
2013

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How Much Sin

                       We have all decided how much sin we can live with ......

Nucky Thomson
Boardwalk Empire

2010

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Phenix City

Phenix City Story
Phil Karlson
1955

It Came Undone

It was a very good year for city girls who lived up the stair

With all that perfumed hair

And it came undone 

When i was twenty-one

It Was A Very Good Year

(Ervin Drake)

Sinatra

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...... Did What They Could

His managers sweated

They did what they could

They schemed

And they wheedled -

But it did no good

The months slid by

The title hung high

No pansies need apply

excerpt from

The Set Up

Joseph Moncure March

1928

The Set Up

Robert Wise

1949

Lizard Covers

Destroy or Infect You

           Cities have characters, pathologies that can make or destroy or infect you, states of mind that run through daily life as surely as a fault line.

Richard Rayner
A Bright and Guilty Place
2009

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Agirlandagun

Mosaic Noir #48

Bob Le Flambeur

Eastern Promises

Killers Kiss

Z

In Cold Blood

Killer Inside Me

Sunset Boulevard

Mr Arkadin

Mr Arkadin

(aka Confidential Report)

Orson Welles

1955