Elderism #14

If the number 8, being, as it is, an upright infinity sign, augurs good luck, then shouldn’t 88 be very fortunate indeed? Don’t tell that to 88 year-old novelist Doris Lessing–her recent “A Life in the Day” column for the Times of London was a grumblefest. Of winning last year’s Nobel prize for literature:

“The fact is that ever since I won the Nobel, all I do is talk–whether I

know anything about the subject or not…I’m bored stiff with myself.”