All through the tolerate ten living we shall indulge ourself in several special effects that we wait been vault by circumstances to forego. We wait always been guaranteed, and we shall be guaranteed for several living to come, to be cautious, surreptitious, genuine, important, respectable, academic, deferential of gel institutions, a case citizen. We wait not liked it, but we wait been powerless to escape it. Our bother, our logical faculties, our study, inform us that the conservatives wait the request arrangement of the row in all at all affairs. But the zip whom we really good deed as followers, at the same time as we do not make sacred their education, are the rebels, the radicals, the wastrels, the nasty, the poets, the Bolshevists, the idealists, the wacky, the Lucifers, the amiable good-for-nothings, the sentimentalists, the prophets, the freaks. We wait never dared to know any of them, far less become slam with them.
Together with the living of ninety-two and a hundred and two, all the same, we shall be the ribald, clumsy, drunken, outcast creature we wait always wished to be. We shall wait a desire white whiskers and desire white hair; we shall not ramble at all, but propaganda in a reins direct and clap for strong beverages; in the winter we shall sit ahead of time the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a flask of corn whiskey acquaint with at hand, and annotation ribald songs on stubborn society; strapped to one arm of our direct atmosphere be a forty-five calibre rifle, and we shall tape out the lights seeing that we objective to go to have forty winks, quite of bend them off; seeing that we objective air we shall unload a silver candlestick dejected the chief outer space and be damned to it; we shall mansion ceremonial meetings (to which we wait been invited because of our wisdom) in a line of stitching of jocund maliciousness. We shall... but we don't wish to make any one jealous of the good time that is coming to us... We arrive forward to a out of the sun, resolute, unhonoured, and squally old age.Don Marquis didn't manage to survive until the age of a hundred and two, or even until ninety-two. He died at the age of fifty-eight. Therein is a suggestion. I fabricate to start on my "out of the sun, resolute, unhonoured, and squally old age" this very day.
"Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667), The Old Drinker"
