Traveling light and the tyranny of higher expectations.
"Three tribes of Babylonians," Herodotus wrote, "eat nothing but fish, which they catch and dry in the sun. They pound the dried fish in a mortar with a pestle and sift through a cloth then mix with liquid and bake like bread." Such are their customs, he reported, "Having no physicians, they bring the sick to the agora to receive advice from passers-by who have similar ailments."
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