I was dreadfully afraid of the night (a carryover from childhood, but my self-control just didn't work with night fright), and I smoked.

Well, I've found it useful to befriend other preds, rather than rebel against them.

Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.

They described shadowcasts where amateur performers acted out the film on a stage below the screen, and the whole audience had interacted, throwing objects and screaming things on cue.