From “The
Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst
19 January
In 20, 30,
50 years the bloom of youth will have more than faded. There will be parts of your
anatomy which, however firm now, will be sagging then. When you lift your arm
off the table the part in the middle is going to leave last. Your face is going
to look like a prune, your thighs like congealed cottage cheese. Despite all
that, why not 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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