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live till you die

きょうも、良い天気です。一昨日までの冬型と一変、山がきれいです。

Ogden Nash です。年齢を受け入れるということは簡単ではありません。特に、私のような人間にとって。どういう意味か。書いてから考えています。

     Peekabo, I Almost See You

Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to
lead it,
But there comes a day when your eyes
are all right but your arm isn't long
enough
to hold the telephone book where you can read it,
And your friends get jocular, so you go
to the oculist,
And of all your friends he is the joculist,
So over his facetiousness let us skim,
Only noting that he has been waiting for you ever since
you said Good evening to his grandfather clock under
the impression that it was him,
And you look at his chart and it says SHRDLU QWERTYOP,
and you say Well, why SHRDNTLU QWERTYOP? and he
says one set of glasses won't do.
You need two.
One for reading Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason and
Keats's "Endymion" with,
And the other for walking around without saying Hello
to strange wymion with.
So you spend your time taking off your seeing glasses to put
on your reading glasses, and then remembering that your
reading glasses are upstairs or in the car,
And then you can't find your seeing glasses again because
without them on you can't see where they are.
Enough of such mishaps, they would try the patience of an
ox,
I prefer to forget both pairs of glasses and pass my declining
years saluting strange women and grandfather clocks.

中年とか老年という概念は、30年前と違うような気がします。
相変わらず1968年ごろを中心とした音楽を聞いているのです。しかし、1968年から40年遡ると1928年、かの1920年代です。
デルタ・ブルースが誕生してそのスタイルを確立しつつある頃。Robert Johnson もちろんまだ主役ではありません。
ロバート・ジョンソンが主役になるのは・・・1960年代になってからですけどね。
November 26, 2008, 1:56 pm
About that advisory board
But the Obama administration’s new economics advisory board would seem like a very good place to give progressive economists a voice. There are a number of excellent people whom Obama might not want to put in line positions but would be very much worth bringing in to offer well-informed alternative views. At the risk of insulting those I forgot to mention, I would think immediately of James Galbraith, Larry Mishel, Dean Baker, Jared Bernstein.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/about-that-advisory-board/
クルーグマン自身は、ワシントンD.C.なんかで仕事はしたくないのだそうです。
性格的にあわないと。
そりゃ、外から野次馬の方が楽です。火中の栗を拾うまでもなく、名誉は得たし、悪態ついていれば言い訳ですから。
by nk24mdwst | 2008-11-27 08:41 | Poetry


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