'The Land at the End of the Working Day' is a Manhattan walk-down bar where people go to meet and drink together, but also, ...a retreat from the anguish of the world, a second home where one's sins are overlooked, where strangers may share intimacies and friendships are made, whether lasting an hour or a lifetime. And, more than that, ...a small way-station situated at Civilization's End, a final resting place before plunging off into who knows what,...