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This is my neighborhood
I’m writing a paper on a Saturday night, so I can’t go hang out with my friends. The only break I’m able to take is the hour I can spend at a deeply-discounted book sale down the street that starts at 9 pm, and of course I see lots of people I know there, rifling through out-of-print sociology books.
“Once you’ve become a part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies, but never a lovely so real.”
- Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make
