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Article: LASTINGNESS: THE ART OF OLD AGE
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- Michigan Quarterly Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright University of Michigan Summer 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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My mother loved the opera and tried to instill a similar devotion in her sons. In my case, it must be admitted, she had small success. I remember being disappointed when Don Giovanni took his final leap into the pit of hell and - leaning out over the balcony rail - I could see the stagehands catch him where he fell. An overweight Salomé failed to entice once she removed her seven veils; she remained a thick aging lady in a body stocking and not the seductress Fd hoped to see dance. But Aida was a winner; we went on my twelfth birthday to Rome's Baths of Caracalla. There were elephants in the triumphal parade, and neither a summer rain squall nor the great steaming gouts of elephant dung ...
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