“The lights of Philadelphia burn in oncoming night beyond. Everyone is going off to eat, there will be drinking in bars, and parties, and wild hilarities. And the football players, taking showers or combing their hair or being rubbed down by some consoling trainer, are thinking of the soft sweet girl awaiting them for the dance.
This was when Peter saw the joys of his college life—always on the Saturday night when the game was over and night spread it rewarding darkness over all.”

—Jack Kerouac, The Town and the City, 1950.