When the night is good
So good that the inexorable march toward decrepitude pauses freezes stops
Time hitting an invisible wall of rightness —
Well, then, we must sing and dance and laugh and love
Certain that if life can be this fine
It surely must go on forever, never stopping, always flying, refusing to
Come down.
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…
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