Magazine Rack - Issue 238

You might enjoy:

• Matthew D'Ancona in The Spectator: Jacqui Smith interview - 42 days does not contravene Magna Carta
• Matthias Fahrni in FT Magazine: My passion for poisson - I'm the world's best fish taxidermist
• Matthew Kirdahy in Forbes: The world's most reputable companies
• Maureen Cleave in More Intelligent Life: Bright Old Things - interviews with the new generation of ninety-somethings

Comments

[Candadai Tirumalai]

Maureen Cleave on nonagerians. The Biblical measure of three score and ten has clearly fallen. When I was a boy and understood that Wordsworth's dates meant that he lived to be eighty I thought it ancient. Now that I am past seventy, even Bernard Shaw's 94 does not seem that. But I remind myself that when the Cumaean Sibyl asked for immortality, which she was granted, she forgot to ask for youth and vigour; consequently she came to wish for death.