"...reflected her owner's philosophy that, if one is born into an era of decadence, one may as well enjoy it while it lasts."
-A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows, I, p. 343.
Time Patrol agents are luckier. They can pick and choose:
"'Wait till you've been to the decadent stage of the Third Matriarchy! You don't know what fun is.'"
-Poul Anderson, "Time Patrol" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 1-53 AT 2, p. 14.
"'[Augustan Rome]'s overrated. Unless we want to go 'way upstairs, the most glorious decadence available is right in my own milieu. New York, say.... If you know the right phone numbers, and I do.'"
-Poul Anderson, "Delenda Est" IN Time Patrol, pp. 173-228 AT I, p. 175.
Is that right about New York, 1960?
The Third Matriarchy decadent period must be "...way upstairs..."
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Also, in most eras 'entry' to various social circles (say, upper-class Augustan Rome) was tightly limited.
You could visit a sailor's dive near the docks in Ostia (though it would be dangerous) but you wouldn't get invited to parties on the Quirinal.
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