Always Behind Us

         Somebody lets us loose like a toad out of a matchbox and we jump and jump and jump and the guy always behind us, and when he gets tired he stomps us to death and our guts squirt out on each side of the boot of All Merciful Providence. The son-of-a-bitch !

• excerpt from
• Nightmare Alley
• William Lindsay Gresham
• 1946

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• Fernand Pelez

  https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/19th-century-paintings-n08738/lot.48.html

Big Lonely City #151

Earl Leaf

Gordon Coster

Henry Grant

Edward Weston

Harold Mayer

Jules Aarons

unknown

unknown

Stanley Kubrick

Louis Stettner

unknown

Marcel Bovis

unknown

unknown

Nicolas Miller

Roger Schall

Ruth Orkin

Sabine Weiss

unknown

unknown

Little Doggie

Mr Blonde - Are you gonna bark all day little doggie ? Or are you gonna bite ?

Reservoir Dogs

1992

jazz

Hawk Koch

Chinatown

Gorky Park

Drowning Pool

Pope of Greenwich Village

The Parallax View

Hangman's Heart

         ........ warm as the very devil when the referee's raisin' your hand, and cold as a hangman's heart when he aint.

The Bruiser

Jim Tully

1936

                https://www.dustjackets.com/pages/books/17629/jim-tully/bruiser-the

Vettriano

       I live in a world of heartbreak. I just seem to be more creative when in some sort of emotional distress.

Jack Vettriano

image

Vettriano

unknown

Mosaic Noir #152

Phantom Lady

Boardwalk Empire

The Blue Dahlia

Gorky Park

Death of a Cyclist

Farewell My Lovely

Mr Arkadin

The Cat's Meow

Killers Kiss

The Quiet American

Force of Evil

Romeo is Bleeding