What Was There

          I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was resignation, fatality, and could only end one way now. The present was numbness, that could feel nothing. Like Novocaine needled into your heart. What was there in all the dimensions of time for me ?

Life is Weird Sometimes
First Chapter of Unpublished Novel "The Loser"
Cornell Woolrich

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You Think You Have To

     " You go through willy-nilly, turning where you think you have to turn, banging into the dead ends, one thing after another".

(Ed Crane)
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001

Where or When

Where or When
(Rodgers/Hart)
Wynton Marsalis

Barbara Hershey

Public Eye

Lantana

Boxcar Bertha

Paris Trout

A Killing in a Small Town

Black Swan

Big Lonely City #172

Francesc Catala Roca

Ruth Orkin

Russell Lee

Boris Korasev

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Andreas Feininger

Brett Weston

Mario De Biasi

Haven Bishop

Robert Doisneau

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Esther Bubley

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Ward Harris

Frank Larson

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Shane Taylor

Flame and Citron

Flame and Citron
Ole Christian Madsen
2008
                               https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/flame-and-citron-2009

Any Past

           I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room i had to live in. It was all i had in the way of a home. In it was everything that was mine, that had any association for me, any past, anything that took he place of a family. Not much ; a few books, pictures, radio, chessmen, old letters, stuff like that. Nothing. Such as they were, they all had my memories.

Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep
1939

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Mosaic Noir #174

Friends of Eddie Coyle

Kafka

Leaving Las Vegas

Wages of Fear

Babylon Berlin

The Thief

Hammett

Un Flic

Daybreak

House of Games

The Trial

Glengarry Glen Ross

Le Trou

Gorky Park