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Friday 14 March 2014

In her study on old age, Simone de  Beauvoir, mentions three distinct issues that have to be confronted.  The first is the subjective, sometimes overwhelming, realization that one has become old with all that implies in terms of individual anxiety and fear. Read Psalms 92.  This is the existential aspect of ageing-how it is borne in upon us, how we come to terms with it, how we resist or are reconciled to the inevitable...  From Jeremy Seabrook's "A World Growing Old",  p.14

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