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RE: Silent Partner ...Finale ...Channeling Another Time
ha ha...age is a number, Arthur - Shakespeare wrote, Thou hast neither youth nor age but as it were a kind of after-dinner sleep - I think people pick an age - say, thirty-five, and spend the rest of their life there....Okay, that's what I do, but until I get to the point where I can't actually do something, I do it. I tend to stay in that zone without putting limits on myself such as, is this style too young/old for me? Am I acting my age? Whatever that means - hell, I've never acted my age and besides what's age got to do with it?
Age was important in the old days, as elders were shown respect and often asked their opinion. Then, we were wise; now, no one wants to know our opinion exactly because of age...
Yes, the youth culture dominates nowadays exacerbated by rapidly changing technological advances of which the older generation is largely ignorant - but even if one stays abreast of technology anyone over 35 is considered 'older' - strangely enough, that same phenomenon occurred in the 60's and the motto was, "Don't trust anyone over 35". The more things change, the more they remain the same, lol
Shakespeare - as with everyone else, he had at least two faces, his public one as shown also in his writing, and his private one when alone with friends or when at a pub. I seem to recall him morosely staring into his ale and moaning about old age being a crock full of turds...or something like that.
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Yes, he wasn't exactly an outstanding individual and could be very spiteful - in his will he left almost nothing to his wife, except for his 'second best' bed....brutal.