A student wrote me an email to ask about a sentence from a XIX-th century text that she didn’t understand. The student is a native speaker of Spanish and a very good student, which made me very curious about the passage that confused her so much. The passage in question said something like:
Even after she reached the age of 35, the Countess still looked shockingly fresh and in possession of all her attractions.
I had to explain to the student that people of my age were considered to be quite old 150 years ago.
And then there are those who claim there is no progress.
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When I was a kid, everybody out of their teens was a write-off. They’d entered the adult world and become rubbish. The oldest people I knew about were seventeen or eighteen. The rest were merely adults.
I remember asking my mother how old she was: “33, she said.” That was an incredible age to be — right on the far reaches of anything possible.
I guess I was 11 at that time.
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Don’t trust anyone over 30.
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An Abbie Hoffmann quote… I, of course, remember when he turned thirty.
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I remember him on tv younger than 25 (I think) saying the Pentagon was going to levitate.
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