I was listening to Harry McClintock's "Big Rock Candy Mountain" from the O Brother soundtrack. It's a funny description of what hobo heaven would be like. (Rivers of whisky etc) What would a shit-lib heaven be like? I'm thinking of UK libs heaven having means tested genital inspections. Everyone else here is way funnier than I am, what you got?
Those were actually exit points in coliseum and theaters in ancient Rome.
I know, I was referring to the common misconception of them, and I think the author might have known that too maybe, to drive home the idea that "even the Romans at their height weren't this decadent"; perhaps I should have used a different word than "literal" but it made sense to me at the time