And the music is saying, I got news for you, baby. Fats and the piano leave the stage together. There is no encore. It would be like asking Moses to bring down an 11th Commandment. There is a higher permissiveness at work down here.
Frivolity is serious business, a path to the human spirit that bypasses the ponderous self.
Food should make you happy before, during and after the meal. Music should cause your heart to beat stronger. She cracks up, cuffs him gently and sends him on through. It has been this way pretty much since 1718, when a party of six carpenters, four Canadians and 30 convicted salt smugglers who had been sent to Louisiana in lieu of jail scratched a rough square in the earth and called it Nouvelle Orleans. Despite the alligators and mosquitoes, floods and epidemics, the place prospered.