Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?