Grifters-Westward: Earthling Qualitative

Adaptation of the searing '90s Stephen Frears crime-psyche 'values' tale of incomplete-distances readings of fortune's (darker/stranger) wage.

The Grifters (John Cusack) adaptation. Happy Thanksgiving, 

DISCLAIMER: This work of fanfiction offers no ties to the referenced work of inspiration and all images/references used herein comprise a purely 'personal' expression for social art (for 'open' translations).

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Mr. Amlan Satan was a nature-grifter of the old-streets variety of incomplete-distances readings to the leviathan/uncertainty of capitalism's very-special mezzanines of profit/risk and wanted to learn from the advice of his omen-delivering speech-wise grifter-mom from Algiers (Nina). Amlan moved to Boston-town and then to the Churchill-Downs area to invest in diamonds-and-gold for a co-investment 'scheme' with an upstart-racer company (Arklow) for social media hyperbole (Facebook-like).

BARON ION: You seek some joint-gems ads for Arklow with me now. grifter?
AMLAN SATAN: I'm your Artful Dodger or James Bond, bad-baron!

BARON ION: Know anything about conflict-zone gems (blood-diamonds)?

AMLAN SATAN: Let's showcase some of your pieces in my hand post-win.

BARON ION: What if your upstart-company loses at Churchill Downs, grifter?

AMLAN SATAN: Nah...this is simply a field goal 'expression' for promises, ok?

BARON ION: Facebook-like (good).

The real trophy for this grifter-game at Churchill Downs for horses and hounds concerned Esmerelda, Baron Ion's maidservant and siren and hand-holding gems-transport lady who was moved with Amlan Satan's horse-derby schematic to make the upstart-racer company (Arklow) a surefire sign for joint-ads confidence. Amlan swapped Ion's (insured?) treasures with replicas and made-off with Esmerelda and some (Interpol-relation?) commission pre-flight to Brussels, and all the while, he heeded his mom's advice from Algiers that grifter-logic, even if moved Westward for empire-dreams, needed to include cartoon-fiction 'IQ' for incomplete-bureaucracy secrets (for the Ego).

Arklow became a millionaire-company, and Mr. Amlan Satan and Esmerelda ('Ezzy') got married (in Brussels!). Amlan opened a waffle-dive and never (ever) thought about blood-diamonds again (wow). Perchance this grifter-IQ tale was one of those darker seeds for fortune's stranger hands for the axes of wrought capitalism superstition. That's what Amlan's mom (Nina) wanted him to understand (or appreciate) for grifter-mezzanines. Any daydream, be it for horses or gold, needed that street-magic for the baskets of Earthling 'wire' distances (for all!).

EZZY: I got you that Wall-St. magazine you like here in Belgium, pal.

AMLAN: Let's forget about casinos and think only of pancakes (ha).

EZZY: You're thinking of Nina, eh?

AMLAN: Life's a beach...for a grifter of chandeliers.

EZZY: Facebook-like (good).

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)