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have forgotten how to throw a good party?Look at some of Poussin's paintings. Women squeezegrapes into the gaping mouths of naked sylvan boys,people ride goats, satyrs goof off with drunken pipers,and masks lay strewn all over the ground—now thatlooks like fun!Today, however, we have only three waysto go about our business:we can make money, help other peopleto make money, or claim to know the truth.Basho and Theocritus meet in Hawaiito discuss fragmentation and downsizing.Cows eat weeds in the country,and along the broad avenues of our suburbstrees overflow with the chatter of starlings.But starlings are from Europe, too.93