By William Lindsay Gresham
Nightmare Alley starts with a unprecedented description of a freak-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the article of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going approximately his paintings at a county reasonable. younger Stan Carlisle is operating as a carny, and he wonders how a guy may well fall so low. There’s no method in hell, he vows, that whatever like that may ever take place to him.And considering Stan is smart and impressive and never with out a necessary streak of ruthlessness, quickly sufficient he’s going locations. Onstage he performs the mentalist with a lovely bimbo (before lengthy his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the desires of the wealthy and gullible of their well-upholstered houses. It feels like the area is Stan’s for the taking. at the very least for now.
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But it is to be hoped that others will be drawn to read this singular work for the first time. I envy the latter, and I don’t want to interfere with the experience that awaits them by delving into matters that would reveal its plot, which grows increasingly more powerful and bizarre from beginning to end. But, to paraphrase Ezra Pound, a little knowledge can do us no harm. This book, first published in 1946, was born in the winter of late 1938 and early 1939, in a village near Valencia, where William Lindsay Gresham, one of the international volunteers who had come to defend the Republic in the lost cause of the Spanish Civil War, was awaiting repatriation.
He grabbed for the chicken, but it spread its stumpy wings in a frenzy of self-preservation and dodged. He crawled after it. For the first time the paint-smeared face of the geek showed some life. His bloodshot eyes were nearly closed. Stan saw his lips shape words without sound. ” Gently the youth eased himself out of the crowd, which was straining, looking down. He walked stiffly around to the entrance, his hands in his pockets. From the pit came a panicky clucking and cackling and the crowd drew its breath.
There will be a slight additional charge for this attraction but it’s not a dollar, it’s not a quarter—it’s a cold, thin dime, ten pennies, two nickels, the tenth part of a dollar. ” Stan shifted over to the rear of the canvas pen. The geek scrabbled under a burlap bag and found something. There was the wheet of a cork being drawn and a couple of rattling swallows and a gasp. The “marks” surged in—young fellows in straw hats with their coats over their arms, here and there a fat woman with beady eyes.
