“Who wants to be old?
What man, in his so called prime, fails to note his coming scenery-
the bandaged varicosities, the braces, the cut bunions, the scarification
and bloodless horn, the smells and tastes of himself, the thickening
spectacles, the hearing aids, the pills and petit prostheses, the
gouty overpall, the kick, cracking, and the myriad painful impediments
of urination, defecation, respiration, transpiration, the organic
wheeze, the gradual invasion of death?
He wants to be old who accepts it.” Philip Wylie.
Excerpted from”Opus One”, published by Rinehart and Company,
Inc., New York and Toronto.
Islander.