City Desk: Where it Listeth

I LIVE in a neighborhood with lots of

university housing, so a walk down the street on a weekend night passes many a Stygian den disgorging kids, the smell of beer, and the detonations that are called music. How do they get there? I know how the kids get there: They want to puke and copulate; what being could enjoy greater felicity? But how do the musicians get there?

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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I LIVE in a neighborhood with lots of

university housing, so a walk down the street on a weekend night passes many a Stygian den disgorging kids, the smell of beer, and the detonations that are called music. How do they get there? I know how the kids get there: They want to puke and copulate; what being could enjoy greater felicity? But how do the musicians get there?