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An image of a man in silhouette at a slot machine reaching for the handle. The slot machine is shaped like a coffin with a cross on it. A large devilish hand grips the man by the shoulders.

Money Against Eternity

Dan Dixon, Overland, Winter 2017

I ask Mason whether, during this time, he was ever discouraged from gambling. It never happened. He remembers how, in one small venue where the staff knew him by name (to be fair, not a club), 'I would put $50 in the machine, and before that first $50 was through, I would have a beer sitting next to me.'

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