What's Il Piccolo? Is it a coffee house? A doughnut shop? A Chinese cake and tea shop that plays Italian opera? Honey it's a stage, a dais for the imagination. It's reproduced in every city on every continent. Gather the intellectuals, the politicos, and the surrounding lowlifes to exchange the necessary drugs that fuel the imagination: caffeine, nicotine, absinthe, opium. So on the one hand, you have the revolutionaries staging their purposeful antics, and on the other hand, you've got the outlaw literati. [...]