Reflections among antiquity


IT is, I suppose, a sign of diverse friends at different stages of life when one receives a mix of end of year greetings.

On one extreme are the boundlessly positive lists of all the good things that happened in the year, and the confidence of more next year. On the other are those who declare that the last 12 months were horrible and may the ensuing 12 be at least less painful.

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