Recalling Shakespeare’s seven ages of man (in As You Like It, II, vii), at almost 75 I find myself entering upon the sixth stage—“the lean and slippered pantaloon.” And like all the elderly, I’ve started to ask some serious questions.
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Old and Full of Years: Eating Sin for Breakfast
The last two verses of the Book of Job tell us that after his ordeal, “Job lived 140 years. And so he died, old and full of years.”