From “The
Human Condition: A User’s Manual” by Arnold Kunst
In 20, 30, 50 years the bloom
of youth will have more than faded. There will be parts of my anatomy which,
however firm now, will be sagging then. When I lift my arm off the table the
part in the middle will leave last. My face may look like a prune, my thighs
like congealed cottage cheese. Despite all that, I intend to emulate the
playwright Samuel Beckett who said he wouldn't shed the ailments of old age for
the vigor of youth even if he could - "not with the fire in me now."
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