CAIQUE LINCRUSTA TUSSORE CAIQUE

 

Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightning (Link)

THREE-CARD TRICK

I once played against a good three-card trick man for over an hour.  I knew exactly what he was doing and how he was doing it and he still beat me three times out of five. That was how the Oberholzer game worked. Only we had been winning five tricks out of five, until I lost one that made it necessary to change not only the name of the game but also some of the rules.

The Clash: Three Card Trick (Link)

Text: Eric Ambler, Send No More Roses (1977)

IGNITION

The moon had risen.  Down in the square the dead were still being piled into trucks and driven away, so that, in the morning, when the Minister of Public Enlightenment issued a statement minimising the importance of the whole affair, no sceptical foreign newspaperman would be able to refute his casualty figures.  The few surviving wounded were already in sick quarters at the garrison barracks, and therefore inaccessible.  The disabled tank had been hauled onto a transporter and removed.  The other tanks had been retired, together with the self-propelled eighty-eights.  The square was being patrolled by two small armoured cars.  Now and again there would be a faint rattle of fire from the outskirts of the city as stragglers or would-be escapers were rounded up and killed.  The building next door had nearly burned itself out.  

Pretty Things: In The Square (Link)

Text:  Eric Ambler, The Night-Comers, London, William Heinemann Limited, 1956

Mick Jagger: Memo From Turner (Link)