literatureiscool: I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at thi
literatureiscool: I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. — The Adventures of Augie March (1953), S. Bellow -- source link