Roger Angell: This Old Man

May 10. 2022

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/17/old-man-3?utm_source=onsite-share&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker

Oh boy what a thrilling read that brings out images of past present and future. In a few thousand words Roger Angell squeezes the enormous river of life through a literary funnel , molecules of each stage of life, a line dance we’ve been learning and living for decades.

I'm a few floats down the the mortality parade from Angell's, but relate with way too much of his brilliant ruminations.