Enter freely and of your own free will!
I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.