It’s a summer night in Chicago during the Great Depression.

The writer Saul Bellow is walking on the streets of Chicago.

“The light held after nine o’clock, and the ground was covered with clover,

more than a mile of green between Cottage Grove and Stony Island.

The blight hadn’t yet carried off the elms, and under them drivers had pulled over,

parking bumper to bumper and turned on their radios to hear Roosevelt.

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