"...those few moments, getting rarer all the time by all accounts, when one is first exposed to impossibly high standards, to books that are our judges and not the other way around, that excitement of learning not yet canceled out by careerist fears---that brief time in youth when you read in a pure state, not because you are innocent, but because you are watching yourself get smarter."
Charles Newman
On Having Turned 80
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It seemed odd, even to me, that after posts (or, let's face it, essays) on
major and not so major birthdays for the past 20 years, I let turning 80 go ...
2 weeks ago
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