Growing Younger

Up or down?

“Sisyphus lying under grindstone,” 13th century, “Le Roman de la Rose,” Guillaume de Lorris (c.1200-c.1240) and Jean de Meun (c.1240-c.1305).

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Growing Moments

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F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a peculiar, seemingly absurd, short story, lightly entertaining, entitled The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,¹ published in 1922, in which the protagonist is born an old man, yet grows progressively younger. In spite of its absurdity, is this idea something that I can play with, or, more to the point, something that I can use?