21st Century: Query 172 (Annie Dillard)
“The
surest sign of age is loneliness.”
How might this statement be true? False?
~ Annie Dillard, an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and
non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary
criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General
Nonfiction. From 1980, Dillard taught for 21 years in the English
department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut.
How might this statement be true? False?
In addition to
the obvious calendar reality, what are some other signs of old age?
How might one
delay the effects of aging?