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Right. So we all get old and then we cannae hack it anymore. Is that it?
— Renton · Trainspotting
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker reduces ageing to a bleak bargain: we grow old, lose the ability to cope, and that is supposedly all there is. The closing question sounds incredulous, even defiant, treating decline as a poor and unacceptable deal rather than something to accept quietly.
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