Slowing Down
“The Fairies and the GoblinsI told him very loud and clearI went and shouted in his ear.Lewis CarrollNow the smelly goblins must give way to the malicious and ever-active fairy-brain surgeons in their war with my mind and vocabulary, with forgetting what I’m looking for and the names of people I’ve just met or known for ages. Young people will, I guess, groan, if indeed they are reading this at all, and mumbling ‘boring old fart’ reach for their mobiles, especially if they have a grandfather or ...ageing relative who bangs on endlessly and repetitively about their experiences during the Blitz. But for those of middle age who can remember the eldritch wail of the sirens night after night, and especially those who still have most of their marbles but are beginning to recognize the slow but steady attentions of the fairies and goblins, and the possibility of being mugged by the demons of the heart attack or the stroke waiting in the wings, I hope it will at least give them the comfort of knowing they are not alone as they enter the shadow of the valley of death.MoreLess
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