Tuesday, June 04, 2013

When did this happen?

... Looking It in the Face by Charles Simic | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I confess to having been taken aback by this. Some years ago (more than I realized), I introduced Charles Simic at the Free Library. Had dinner with him beforehand. So I'm reading along, and I come to this: "Even having people congratulate me on my seventy-fifth birthday doesn’t sound right to me." What's that again? Seventy-five? Charles Simic? Why he was only in his early '60s when ... And so was I. And I remember now that he's three years older than I. Damn.

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