tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post4669966874643188986..comments2024-03-24T02:21:53.258-07:00Comments on william morris unbound: On Being 56 Years OldTony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-21920124032284048542012-12-24T08:31:28.575-08:002012-12-24T08:31:28.575-08:00And there's always Muriel Rukeyser's littl...And there's always Muriel Rukeyser's little 'Rondel':<br /><br />Now that I am fifty-six<br />Come and celebrate with me -<br /><br />What happens to song and sex<br />Now that I am fifty-six?<br /><br />They dance but differently,<br />Death and distance in the mix;<br />Now that I'm fifty-six<br />Come and celebrate with me.Makiko Minow-Pinkneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07706681425693288917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-29813105337166928852012-08-15T01:10:20.477-07:002012-08-15T01:10:20.477-07:00Ah yes, Annie: one of those characters (like Boffi...Ah yes, Annie: one of those characters (like Boffin the Golden Dustman) that 'News from Nowhere' should have made more of. Have just spotted Wilfred Scawen Blunt offering Jane Morris some advice on being 56, as recorded in his diary: ‘I have advised her to set up a dairy farm as old age without a hobby is sad. She is the same age as myself 56’.Tony Pinkneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-27891132326024347832012-07-31T13:56:58.920-07:002012-07-31T13:56:58.920-07:00Well, according to Dostoyevsky in 'The Idiot&#...Well, according to Dostoyevsky in 'The Idiot', 56 is "the age at which real life can be rightly said to begin". And as for William Guest, perhaps he should have taken his chances with 42-year-old Annie at Hammersmith Guest House.Koticknoreply@blogger.com