However alert we are, however much think we know what will happen, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. It is alien, and old people are a separate form of life.... They can be pleasant, they can be annoying -- in the supermarket, these old ladies won't get out of my way -- but most important they are permanently other.
Donald Hall, "Out the Window", Personal History, The New Yorker, January 23, 2012, 40.
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