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It was Mrs. Treadwell's birthday, not the first she had spent alone on a train or a ship; she was feeling her age, forty-six, as a downright affront to her aesthetic sense. All the forties were dull-sounding numbers, but forty-six was so hopelessly middle-aged, so much too late to die young, so much too early to think of death at all. She...remembered how her elders talked long ago some pleasant nonsense about growing old gracefully; she had told them firmly then and there that she was never going to grow old at all, no matter how gracefully. And she had believed it - that was what being a child meant. But had she grown up at all, then? Had she simply gone without knowing it from childhood to age, without ever becoming - unattractive word - "mature"?Well, everyone knows that melancholy brooding and a tendency to dwell in the past are most certain signs of growing old.
Katherine Anne Porter. Ship of Fools. Гениальная, между прочим, книга.
Katherine Anne Porter. Ship of Fools. Гениальная, между прочим, книга.
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Date: 2011-10-09 02:15 pm (UTC)С днем рождения!
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Date: 2011-10-09 02:39 pm (UTC)ЗЫ: Про книгу и фильм -- не могу не согласиться.
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Date: 2011-10-09 05:05 pm (UTC)The quote is resonating in my mind ... until the last sentence.
Of course, this comes from someone who, at melancholy 10 years old, tried to write her memoirs, as, like said Pippi Longstocking: "After 10 the best years of your life are over!"
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Date: 2011-10-10 02:53 am (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2011-10-10 12:12 am (UTC)Очень приятно.
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Date: 2011-10-13 08:36 am (UTC)Пусть у тебя будет то, чего ты больше всего хочешь!
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