"The Joy of Old Age. (No Kidding.)," By OLIVER SACKS, New York - TopicsExpress



          

"The Joy of Old Age. (No Kidding.)," By OLIVER SACKS, New York Times, Published: July 6, 2013 "LAST night I dreamed about mercury - huge, shining globules of quicksilver rising and falling. Mercury is element number 80, and my dream is a reminder that on Tuesday, I will be 80 myself. Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers. At 11, I could say "I am sodium" (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold. A few years ago, when I gave a friend a bottle of mercury for his 80th birthday - a special bottle that could neither leak nor break - he gave me a peculiar look, but later sent me a charming letter in which he joked, "I take a little every morning for my health." Go here -> nytimes/2013/07/07/opinion/sunday/the-joy-of-old-age-no-kidding.html?hp&_r=0
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:38:22 +0000

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