Author: William Gresham

Cites

• T. S. Eliot (1)
  • IN: Nightmare Alley (1946) Novel, Mystery, Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe, With a wicked pack of cards. Here, said she, Is your card, the drowned Phoenician Sailor, (Those are pearls that were his eyes. Look!) Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks, The lady of situations. Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel, And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card, Which is blank, is something he carries on his back, Which I am forbidden to see. I do not find The Hanged Man. Fear death by water…
    FROM: The Waste Land, (1922), Poem, UK
• Petronius (1)
  • IN: Nightmare Alley (1946) Novel, Mystery, Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For at Cumae I saw with my own eyes the Sibyl hanging in a bottle. And when the boys asked her, “What do you want, Sibyl?” she answered, “I want to die.”
    FROM: The Satyricon, (75), NULL, Italy