Powerful review of "Nightmare Alley." Within next 5 years, I hope Bradley Cooper directs and stars in a remake of "Lolita." Your adjective "dusquieted" is perfect.
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Wrote odd tale of a cold-reading 30's noir monkey during a fevered bout of the flu, with its inspirations including film "Sunset Boulevard" and the Gresham novel "Nightmare Alley"!
1. Repost of inspo for a poem of mine, about a bachelor goose in my housing complex, who I noticed had begun minding an unattended [goose, I assume] egg.