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2. When he was 13, Harlan Ellison ran away to join a small circus, called a "Gilly"

Fri Jun 29, 2018, 02:46 PM

Jun 2018

It had carnival rides,a freak show, and "games of chance"

Ellison worked as a "gopher"

One time, When the entire "Gilly" crew was arrested, the owner bailed out everybody except Harlan Ellison [the "gopher"] and the circus "geek"

Ellison refused to tell the cops his real name; but they eventually found out through a "missing person" report.

He spent several days in the jail cell with the "geek"..who was an alcoholic going through the
"DT"s....Ellison never forgot the horrible smell of the geek's withdrawal from booze, and he never had a single drink for his entire life

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