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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Feeling restored is always imagined as just a little way ahead. The delay is short enough to remain believable, but the repeated expectation makes it comic. Middle age is defined through that hopeful postponement, with full recovery continually promised by the near future.
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