《老矣》集

《老矣》寫些老人(約死之前15年)的賢明或糊塗

當你垂垂老矣
逐漸失智
先是最美麗的時光
最親愛的人、友
你還能嘴硬
說這大半是遺傳使然

當你垂垂老矣
牙醫師當你會不朽
要你植牙
你說 要算算是否能
撈回本
是否全盤的醫治計畫
少了機率、多了算計

當你垂垂老矣
老夫/老妻說
最燦爛的陽光
分享過
最醉人的喜樂
經歷過
最心碎的訣別
還沒說過

1.W. Edwards Deming 1900~1993


2.  Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Born in Edo, Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the internationally iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Wikipedia

Born: October 31, 1760, Edo

Died: May 10, 1849, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

朝顏 自畫像 88

3. Johanna "Hannah" Cohn Arendt was a German philosopher and political theorist. Her many books and articles on topics ranging from totalitarianism to epistemology have had a lasting influence on political theory. Arendt is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century.Wikipedia

Born: October 14, 1906, Linden-Limmer, Hanover, Germany

Died: December 4, 1975

4. Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Wikipedia

Born: June 21, 1905, Paris, France

Died: April 15, 1980, Paris, France

寫80歲感言的人

Henry Miller

Russell Ackoff

90歲

  PAOUL Picasso/

Pau Casals i Defilló, usually known in English as Pablo Casals, was a cellist, composer, and conductor from Catalonia, Spain. He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time. Wikipedia

Born: December 29, 1876, El Vendrell, Spain

Died: October 22, 1973, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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