SOME OTHER TIME

If Deanne Stillman (“Cairo by the Mohave,” Guest Bites Town, May 10) wants to do a brilliant, ironic, erudite, warmed-over takeoff on Aldoux Huxley and F. Scott Fitzgerald, why doesn’t she skip the comparisons to Rome and Cairo and visit Athens. It’s an unincorporated area just south and east of Inglewood, not too far from Watts. Not just now, though. They’re a little impatient at present with ancient history.

FRED SCIFERS

Downey