Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
So many people ask me, 'Do you like 'Departed?' I say, '50/50.'
I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.
I know one day I'll be considered too old.
The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
People sometimes announce that we have entered 'the information age' as if information did not exist in other times. I think that every age was an age of information, each in its own way and according to the available media.
I think I have to remain eternally oblivious to age. Honestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it's just like, Why? Why do that?
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