I read the news today, oh boy!
Paul McCartney is seventy seven and Ringo Starr is seventy nine? Wait a minute. I’ve lost fifty years somewhere. Anyone seen them?
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literature
Speak Strine
Never use two syllables when one will do; never use three syllables when two will do; never use four syllables.
Ageless
My old school classmates are all turning seventy five this year. Not me, I’m turning seventy four and I feel oddly pleased about this, like setting a clock an hour forward and so gaining time. And I need to gain all I can.
Put it in your album
You take photos to remind yourself of good times. But you can’t bear to look at them again because they remind you of good times.
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Where the living is easy
Biographies give me the comforting feeling that life is arranged in patterns, has structure, can be understood rationally, and will turn out all right in the end.
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Reality has a real bias
It seems impossible to get the World’s media to understand that Game of Thrones is not the real world, but that there is indeed a real world which is not a tv show.
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With muffled drum
I wasn’t fond of Notre Dame as a building – give me Chartres any day – but so sad to see all that history burning savagely. But seriously, grown men worked there who believed they had the “Crown of thorns”?