Marlow’s Listener

If there’s a surprise in all this, it’s an ordinary on

“Stuart Little isn’t Gregor Samsa. He’s Don Quixote, turning into Holden Caulfield.”

We need a form of happiness that can go with us through all life’s stages: life is so short that we ought to reject any felicity that does not last as long as we do. An idle old age is the only burden; old age in itself is not, for if old age degrades us [...]