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He’s heir to Trump’s sybaritic nihilism, high-kitsch absurdity and impregnable brazenness.

Before long, however, a seriously frightened Westen rushes to consult a sybaritic, Magus-like acquaintance named Jaime Donaldus Byers, who — in my favorite chapters of the novel — relates the history of an occultist named Thibault de Castries, author of “Megapolisomancy.”

He was a voice of his generation’s most cherished ideals and its most pungent caricature, the man who wrote the willowy folk classic “Guinnevere” and a sybaritic braggart whose excesses required two memoirs to fully digest.

Say this much for Damien Chazelle: He shows his audience exactly what he’s giving them within the first few minutes of “Babylon,” his bruised, black-eyed valentine to Hollywood’s sybaritic heyday.

San Francisco has the natural harbor, but we have the beaches, those soft, wide, sybaritic beaches.