It was a night in late August, a night that ...

[blwings]

"It was a night in late August, a night that rekindled in rattling windows and tree branch palsy that lost recollection of autumn, misplaced for the succession of bright summer distractions, trapped heat in small rooms and sweaty underarms"

This is from The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead. It's too long and confusing for me. Please help me interpret this.

 

[Tarheel]

It's supposed to be creative writing. In other words, it's not normal. It was windy, which is why the windows rattled. That's also what the "palsy" refers to.

I won't pretend to understand it all. For example, it's late August, so it's summer, not autumn.