No Laughing Matter (2012)
“1937 ‘The Comic Spirit is indeed wonderful and mysterious in her workings. To hear something that has been a familiar feature of one’s youth hailed by the younger generation as a startling modern phenomenon is one of those recurring situations that bring a discreet twinkle to the eye or a hastily suppressed twitch to the risible nerves of the lips of most septuagenarians at one time or another. Such is the present … But supposing the twitches were no longer under one’s control, supposing they c...ame and went not at the mysterious dictation of the Comic Spirit but as the physiologically explicable decline of senescent motor and vascular systems. Then surely one ought not to be alone. Autumn, sad autumn, the autumn of one’s life, season of mellow fruitlessness – and in truth he had seldom been writing more smoothly, more easily; but autumn was only a prelude. At the end she had lain down there in that little room with but one eye still alive in that cheery, cockney little body.MoreLess
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