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COMESAT A BAD TIME\n\nOLD AGE COMESAT A BAD TIME  \n# Wit and Wisdom for the Young at Heart\n\nSelected and Introduced byEliakim Katz  \nRobson Books  \nSpecial edition for PAST TIMES  \n# OLD AGE COMES AT A BAD TIMEtext   Eliakim Katz\n\n987654321  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted in any form or by anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording orotherwise,without the prior permission in writing of the copyrightholder.The right of Eliakim Katz to be identified as author hasbeen asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright,Designsand Patents Act 1988  \nPAST TIMES  \nTo my wife,Stella,who keeps me as young as possible under the circumstances,a to my father,Sblomowho is living proof that old age need not be a bad time  \n地  \nKimberley Glaze typed much of the manuscript and managed,morethan once,to retrieve text from electronic oblivion;Laura Siberry,my editor at Stoddart,was always patient,encouraging,and insight-ful.I wish to thank them both.  \n# Jntroduction\n\nTwo years ago I was at a lakeside trying to negotiate a speed-boat ride for my daughter and two of my nieces.The man Iwas haggling with quoted an outrageous price.Taken by sur-prise I said,\"How much?\"  \n“What’s the matter,Pops,\"he said,\"losing your hearing also?”  \n“Pops?POPS!?Do I look like a Pops?”I thought.“And whatdoes he mean by also?”I bent over and,Narcissus style,lookedat my reflection in the water.He was right.Peter Pan wasnowhere to be seen.Sardonic middle age looked up at mefrom the water.You are getting old,Father William.  \nFor years I had been brushing aside hair loss,closing myeyes to an increasing tendency to read at arm's length,andmaking little of the fact that(so far)two of my children aretaller than me.But denial can only be taken so far.My hair isjoining the hair of my father(baldness is my“hairitage”),I now  \nneed bifocals,and my son must bend down to kiss me.Withthe four on my odometer being gently but firmly edged out bythe five and with“Pops”ringing in my ears,I have finallybegun to accept that getting older is not something that onlyhappens to other people.I have seen the future,and it is aging.  \nAnd,of course,there is no respite or hiding from it.I am get-ting older as I write this,and you are not getting any youngeras you read it.Whatever we do,our aging keeps staring us inthe face.It is the constant in our lives,and the years are theonly real measure of our journey.  \nAging is about losing our youth and finding a varicose vein.It is about fighting our children and making peace with ourparents.It is about reflecting on the past,thinking of the future,and facing our mortality.It is about changing mental and physicalcapacities and hormone replacement therapy.It is about gain-ing wisdom and mislaying our reading glasses.It is about howwe want to be remembered and what we want to forget.  \nThroughout time,people have feared aging,laughed at 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