Nemo saltat sobrius nisi insanit
Thanks for this post. All fiction is speculative. But I admit I’ve never been a fan of speculative or science fiction, though I am a proponent of science, and of speculation. Maybe because of its form, iambic pentameter, Turner’s Genesis is changing my mind.
Grief, Shmief! I’m so sick of it.
Yet I’m stuck in the Ick of it
When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more, which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying.
Wiki on struldruggg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struldbrugg
Or, as I call it, Senemtia
https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/dementia/
Or, as I call it, Senemtia
The ick of it
The incomparable beauty of bossa nova