When the book was published, I had just turned sixty-one. I took on the job of writing it when I wasĪpproaching and crossing the small but noticeable frontier of my sixth decade: a time when one has begun to notice the names To some extent this is natural and proper in any work of autobiography. In any case, I believe that it might strike some readers (as it now very forcibly strikes the author) that the first threeĬhapters, as well as many of the ensuing passages, show a strong preoccupation with impending death, or with deaths in myįamily. Of my memoir will know that it was written by someone who, without appreciating it at the time, had become seriously and perhaps I HOPE IT WILL not seem presumptuous to assume that anybody likely to have got as far as acquiring this paperback re-edition "Do not aspire to immortal life but exhaust the limits of the possible."
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