"kvetchlandia:  Jeff Lowenthal     Saul Bellow     1964 ""I am an American, Chicago born — Chicago, that somber city — and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.""  Saul Bellow, opening passage of ""The Adventures of Augie March,"" 1953, and a grand opening passage it is."