A quarter of a century was to elapse between the time when he saw his father sitting with the strange woman and the time when he was to see him again, standing alone upon the red clay of a Mississippi plantation, a sharecropper, clad in ragged overalls, holding a muddy hoe in his gnarled , veined hands-a quarter of a century during which my mind and consciousness had become so greatly and violently altered then when …showed first 75 words of 2359 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2359 total…a trap. Pg.230-233 “My first glimpse of the flat black stretches of Chicago depressed and dismayed me, mocked all my fantasies. Chicago seemed an unreal city whose mythical houses were built of slabs of black coal. wreathed in palls of gray smoke, houses whose foundations were sinking slowly into the dark prairie. Flashes of steam showed intermittently on the wide horizon, gleaming translucently, entered to remain for years to come. The year was 1927. Pg.261