June 2, 2015
Your Aura
From a
letter received this morning from Uncle Albert, the 91-year-old devoté of LaRochefoucauld and
composer of sentences of his own.* Advice on
retirement:
I
know you’re more than a few years away, but you can’t begin looking too early: for
a place to wear cotton and broken-down shoes, a place where your disorder might
even appear orderly; a place where time and industry won’t always be nibbling
at the edges of your aura.
Not
that I believe you have one. “Aura” is the invention of people that would like
to believe they have no edges at all.
______________
* A few more recent Uncle Albertisms:
on Hillary Clinton, though she is not mentioned by name,
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