In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.
I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.
In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.
The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.