yes, that's why I was struck by all those Montaigne sentences the other day. He
thought midfifties was very late in life.
I've just been described in the local paper as
septuagenarian Doncaster resident
and the accompanying pic makes me feel octogenarian.
Why didn't they add the usual cliches - spry and young at heart?!
I am misquoted about my selfpublished booklets and the place I said they were
available has its name changed unrecognizably by the journo who phoned...
Ach!
not to lose sleep over.
Max
Quoting Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> Like Andrew, I can 'see' myself in some of this, max.
>
> As a friend once said, 'if, after you turn 50 (maybe 60 today?) you arent in
> some pain when you wake up, youre dead.'
>
> Doug
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> > First Thing
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> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-
press_10.html
>
> and as you read
> the sea is turning its dark pages
> turning
> its dark pages.
>
> Denise Levertov
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