I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.
Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.