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“…he also wore a bright red bandanna about his dirty throat…”


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


Excerpt from pg.19: “Certainly the thief calling himself John the Baptist wasn’t one even though he left a religious tract at the scene of every theft. Even though wearing the ministerial black with the Come-To-Jesus-Or-Else collar. For he also wore a bright red bandanna about his dirty throat and never a shirt below or beneath at all.”