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Woman with wax tablets and stylus (so-called "Sappho"), Naples Archeological Museum

How a few days sailing in the Aegean changed my mind about the fundamental nature of things. A few years ago, my wife, Sarah, and I went on a sailing trip on the eastern Aegean. It was heaven: the two of us out at sea, charting a course between Greek islands and the coast of Turkey, taking turns helming the boat and dozing below, surrounded by all the glittering blue of the sea. As we hopped from port to port, I c...