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Any books dealing with the fact that growing old fucking sucks?

>> No.17408539

>>17408526
why would it suck?

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>I grow old... I grow old...
>I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

>> No.17408557

>>17408526
Houellebecq
Death in Venice

>> No.17408569

>>17408551
Since our concern was speech, and speech impelled us
To purify the dialect of the tribe
And urge the mind to aftersight and foresight,
Let me disclose the gifts reserved for age
To set a crown upon your lifetime's effort.
First, the cold friction of expiring sense
Without enchantment, offering no promise
But bitter tastelessness of shadow fruit
As body and soul begin to fall asunder.
Second, the conscious impotence of rage
At human folly, and the laceration
Of laughter at what ceases to amuse.
And last, the rending pain of re-enactment
Of all that you have done, and been; the shame
Of motives late revealed, and the awareness
Of things ill done and done to others' harm
Which once you took for exercise of virtue.