Where mathematics meets God,
where the cacophony of every human voice is harnessed
into an ordered and purposeful whole —
that’s where you reside. Yet
how unlikely, how perverse even,
that your name should sound like someone
clearing his throat,
preparing to expectorate in a most unmelodic way.
Long ago, more than 2,500 years in the past, the city of Sybaris flourished on the heel of what is now Italy. Situated on a bustling line of Greek trade, Sybaris was where seagoing merchants unloaded their precious cargo for distribution along the Western coast. The customs and tolls from the Greeks’ inexorable enterprise made Sybaris one of the richest towns in the ancient world.
According to the historian Diodorus Siculus, the population of 300,000…
Writer, poet, artist, improviser, lyricist, former television personality, and generally decent person.
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