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Beauty in the gutter In the middle of describing a freight yard full of lice-ridden tramps, Tully stopped to notice a feather-tossed robin perched on a wire fence along the tracksit looked hopeless and woebegone a strayed reveller who had left a warm climate too soon. He said of his own years in the gutter: If my clothing was lousy I watched clouds sailing across the moon and heard linnets chirping and larks singing. This is the trick the hardboiled school inherited from him: flat reportage of brutal facts, with sudden flashes of lyric grace

it is about personal conviction

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The hypnotist holds power over the subject and pushes them to do silly things