In my insomniacal insaniacal states, I can convince myself of almost anything... and well-- I have now convinced myself that I am having a mid life crisis at thirty three. TOTAL LIFE TOSSUP. That's me. Right now. I cannot wait to see how the pieces land.
Anyhoo-- Erica Jong helped me along in this new embrace of disaster. Both of the state of my mid-life and the legitimacy of the older women/younger men phenom...
I love Erica Jong, at times that my brain needs junkfood (now), and I bought Parachutes and Kisses at my old hangout (Barnes & Noble) last night. (whoop whoop-- I'm a wild child! Suffering from a caffeine hangover... ) She says this:
They are the older generation now. They know it because they sign the checks. They know it because their parents are starting to die. They know it because their grandparents stare down at them from uneasy chairs in the clouds... They have reached the age where they meet their new lovers at A.A., where some of their friends are addicts, some of their friends are bankrupt, and some of their friends are dead...
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He's thirty three-- Christ's age on the cross. Dante's age when he descended into hell. Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vida. The Middle of life-- a dangerous age for a man. Or a woman.
Whoa. I NEVER though of myself as middle aged. Though the first paragraph is COMPLETELY applicable to ME. Though the current average American life expectancy is 77.6 years. I have somehow fooled myself into believing that mid lifers were in their fifties. (of course, when I am fifty, i'm sure my opinion on that will change...)
Anyhoo-- Erica Jong helped me along in this new embrace of disaster. Both of the state of my mid-life and the legitimacy of the older women/younger men phenom...
I love Erica Jong, at times that my brain needs junkfood (now), and I bought Parachutes and Kisses at my old hangout (Barnes & Noble) last night. (whoop whoop-- I'm a wild child! Suffering from a caffeine hangover... ) She says this:
They are the older generation now. They know it because they sign the checks. They know it because their parents are starting to die. They know it because their grandparents stare down at them from uneasy chairs in the clouds... They have reached the age where they meet their new lovers at A.A., where some of their friends are addicts, some of their friends are bankrupt, and some of their friends are dead...
. . . . . . . . .
He's thirty three-- Christ's age on the cross. Dante's age when he descended into hell. Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vida. The Middle of life-- a dangerous age for a man. Or a woman.
Whoa. I NEVER though of myself as middle aged. Though the first paragraph is COMPLETELY applicable to ME. Though the current average American life expectancy is 77.6 years. I have somehow fooled myself into believing that mid lifers were in their fifties. (of course, when I am fifty, i'm sure my opinion on that will change...)
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