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CaliforniaPeggy

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1. Congrats on your very literary and beautiful new cup, my dear NNadir!

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Sun Sep 14, 2025, 11:24 AM

Sep 14

It's true that our minds aren't as sharp as they were when we were young.

But there are compensations! With any luck, we do acquire some wisdom.

We get to look back over our decades and realize just how lucky we have been. We can see patterns in our actions and in our thinking. We can see the sweep of time.

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My wife bought me a cool new coffee cup from the unemployed philosophers guild. [View all] NNadir Sep 14 OP

Congrats on your very literary and beautiful new cup, my dear NNadir! CaliforniaPeggy Sep 14 #1

I often appeal to the remark attributed to Ingmar Bergman: NNadir Sep 14 #2

Kafka, Melville, Clemens, Nabokov ... not at all familiar with any of the others. eppur_se_muova Sep 14 #3

I recognized the majority. I disagree with the Unemployed Philosophers about Kurt Vonnegut's greatest first line. NNadir Sep 14 #4