Those were the days my friend
Old age comes, finally, like the turning on of a spotlight, when there is no one left alive who knew you as a child.
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Bon mots
Shredded
When you look back on your long life it is as if every detail, every moment, was written on a great scroll, and then put through a shredder, so that you are reduced to picking up thin strips of paper, each with a phrase, a headline, an image, unconnected to anything else. Good luck putting
11/11/1918
Just think what all those dead young men could have done in the years after 1918. Think of the advances in Art, Literature, Music, Science. Think of the leaders who might have steered their countries into a better new age. And think of the potential of their descendants, never born. Because politicians, and Generals, thought
But not forgotten
Searching for your old teachers on the internet, brings to life partial histories of long forgotten teaching careers that once were of great importance to them and their families. Now just digitised fragments of dusty archives, but evoking memories of people who once changed your life and set it on its seventy year course.
Dress rehearsal
Watching Trump gradually putting together the framework of a Fascist state is like seeing a re-enactment of Hitler putting together the framework of Nazi Germany.
Baton passing
Students I once thought of as the younger generation are now all professors. Unlike me.
40 winks more
Strange how some event which is a “wake-up call” leaves everyone sleeping just as soundly as ever.
Your time starts…now
We spend our lives waiting to sit one exam after another.
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Hierarchy
If you don’t get qualifications when you are young you will find yourself working for idiots. If you do get qualifications you will find yourself working for more highly paid idiots.
Old man in dry month
Rain rain come and play, stay away another day.
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