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   RealName: August Abolins 2:221/1.58   
   Hi All...   
      
      
   Saw the film.  Enjoyed it.  Decided to check out the book to help "fill in the   
   gaps".   
      
   "Upon its publication, in September 1946, Nightmare Alley was   
   an acclaimed and successful novel, and a damned and banned one.   
      
   "For thirty years after the first edition of 1946, every edition remained   
   corrupt and censored. To use but one example, instead of ?society dames with   
   the clap, bankers that take it up the ass,? readers encountered ?society dames   
   with a dose, bankers that have fishy eyes.?   
      
   "Within little more than a decade, it was all but forgotten. Sixteen autumns   
   later, in September 1962, Gresham?s body was found, self-killed, in a hotel   
   room off Times Square. He has just turned fifty-three a few weeks before. In   
   his possession were business cards that read:   
      
   [ see.. https://susepaste.org/24850127 ]   
      
   "And so the alley, and the running, and the light beyond reach   
   came to an end - for the man who wrote of that alley, if not for us who read   
   of it.   
      
   "It is interesting, too, that while still undergoing psychotherapy, Gresham   
   crafted in Nightmare Alley, in the somewhat heavy-handedly named character of   
   Dr. Lilith Ritter, the most viciously evil psychologist in the history of   
   literature."   
      
   Ciao!   
    /|ug (https://t.me/aabolins)   
      
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