Nightmare Alley
by William Lindsay Gresham · first published 1946
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Stanton Carlisle, employed as a carny at a travelling circus watches their freak-show geek - an abject alcoholic, the object of the voyeuristic crowd's gleeful disgust and derision - and wonders how a man could fall so low. There's no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. Unlike the tragic figure he sees before him, Stan is young, clever and ambitious and quick to learn from the other carnival acts. Initially teaming up with a beautiful but vulnerable woman as part of a double act in which he mesmerises her, Stan soon leaves his circus days behind him, becom
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…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright... If an artist can't re-coup their costs in, say, thirty years, they are bad at business side of things and should get out of the way to allow other creative people to build on their work. The novel Nightmare Alley was published in 1946, and the author died in 1962: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_Alley_(novel) There's no reason why it should (AFAICT) still be under copyright such that royalties need…
on “Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (2012)” ↗Mentalism is a large part of the plot of Nightmare Alley. Personally, I enjoyed the 1947 film a lot more than the recent 2021 film. Both are based on the 1946 novel.
on “My Life as a Mentalist” ↗