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I think more and more of the cycle as a metaphor for aRea single age in human history, squeezed in between Floods, Ice Ages, man's general self-destructiveness or some other human catastrophe.
It remains one of the most moving songs ever written about drug abuse, sketching in a few brief lines the dark hinterland of depression which lies behind so many addicted lives, and the lure of narcotic oblivion: "Through ages man's desires/ To free his mind, to release his very soul/ Has proved to all who live/ That death itself is freedom for evermore".
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And it's much more interesting than an aging man's ego or even Kitty's instability.
In one case it's a real ghost who haunts a Hong Kong apartment; in another it's a ghostly, Jamesian doppelganger who haunts an aging man's reminiscences.
What I thought where my shopping bags pressing against me was in fact a middle age man's hand.
Yet he himself rebuffed the suggestion that they were an ageing man's pornography – claiming that he was simply studying the "mathematics" of these naked, acrobatic bodies.
Homes, who has frequently written in an aging man's voice, acknowledged that she may have an "old-man psyche" and recalled dressing up as Willy Loman for Halloween in fourth grade.
When Craig Raine published in May this year a wistful, clever poem about an ageing man's hopeless erotic thoughts, it stirred rage, hatred and fantasies of violence, of vengeful genital mutilation across the social media.
"Lunch Hour" is an evocative but slight piece about a high school reunion that triggers an aging man's memories of the girl who gave him entree to the cool crowd at school so many years ago.
Quiet City, for trumpet (the splendid Philip Cobb), cor anglais (Christine Pendrill) and strings, derives from incidental music to a play by Irwin Shaw, depicting an ageing man's recognition of his failure to realise his youthful ambitions.
At one end, there is a piping boyish excitement in viewing the battlefield, at the other, an aging man's awareness of somber death and the futility of human desires, however magnificent.
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