To be alive at all involves some risk.

Ez gives it the thumbs up at Seven Mile Beach.

There was a quote in the Engels biography that Ezra and I enjoyed very much. It concerned Engels' only vist to the Unioted States (he liked it), and more particularly, New York. For him, the big apple was

a town worthy to be inhabited by the most vile-looking crowd in the world, they all look like discharged croupiers from Monte Carlo.

"[D]ischarged croupiers from Monte Carlo"?

Thumbs up!