I've always stuck to the mental business. It don't hurt anybody - makes plenty of friends for you wherever you go. Folks are always crazy to have their fortunes told, and what the hell - you cheer 'em up, give 'em something to wish and hope for, that's all the preacher does every Sunday. Not much different, being a fortune teller and a preacher, way i look at it. Everybody hopes for the best and fears the worst and the worst is generally what happens, but that don't stop us from hoping. When you stop hoping you're in a bad way.
Nightmare Alley
William Lindsay Gresham
1946
https://crimereads.com/william-lindsay-greshams-nightmare-alley/
got that paperback
ReplyDeleteGreat version of that book ..... Prob easier to pick up in U.S than here in Scotland
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