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“Touches the shaded lamp above the green-baized cloth and turns on the night.”

Chicago: City on the Make: An Homage to Nelson Algren


Excerpt from pg. 60: “Tonight, just as the daylight’s last sleepy Boy Scout is being tucked in with a kiss and a prayer, the sullen evening’s earliest torpedo slips the long cue silently from the shadowy rack. Touches the shaded lamp above the green-baized cloth and turns on the night.”