From “The Human Condition: A
User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst
14 April
20, 30, 50 years from now 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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