"Thereâ€™s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but itâ€™s really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we canâ€™t ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then itâ€™s quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementiaâ€™s the sane realisation you just canâ€™t be doing with all that anymore."

-- Glen Duncan

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