NP - Frank Miller's Charlie Brown

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tore Rye Andersen" <torerye at hotmail.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:33 AM
Subject: RE: NP - Frank Miller's Charlie Brown


>
>> In addition to saying where they live and where they were born could
>> p-listers tell their age. Or maybe just whether, say, they are under 30,
>> middle aged, or ancient (like me)?
>
> Does this mean that 'middle aged' begins right after 30? I resent that, 
> Sir!

And well you should.

We need another category--no longer trusted but not yet middle-aged.

I was unfortunately well into real middle age when the revolution 
started--aside from Robert Lowell about the oldest marcher on the Pentagon. 
It almost killed him.

P





> On the other hand, here's Maskelyne on his 29th birthday:
>
> "Twenty-nine's Fell Shadow! O, inhospitably final year of any Pretense to
> Youth, its Dreams now, how wither'd away... tho' styl'd a Prime, yet 
> bid'st
> thou Adieu to the Prime of Life!... There,-- there, in the Stygian Mists 
> of
> Futurity, loometh the dread Thirty,-- Transition unspeakable! Prime so
> soon fallen, thy Virtue so easily broken, into a Number divisible,--  
> penetrable!--
> by six others!" (Mason & Dixon, p. 118)
>
> Tore, 38 (alas!), Aarhus, Denmark
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