![]() And I have searched myself for this possibility with a kind of horror. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. ![]() Who doesn’t like to be a center for concern? A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. ![]() In this they are encouraged by wives and relatives, and it’s such a sweet trap. You’re not as young as you once were.” And I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton wool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. It had happened to so many of my friends. It happens to many men, and I think doctors have memorized the litany. When I came out of it I received the usual lecture about slowing up, losing weight, limiting the cholesterol intake. During the previous winter I had become rather seriously ill with one of those carefully named difficulties which are the whispers of approaching age. ![]()
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