30 Is The Magic Number
You may ask, and I sometimes, albeit most infrequently these days, ask myself, what a notionally grown man is doing reading such material. [2000 A.D] Well, I also read the Times Literary Supplement and The London Review of Books, and have even been known to write for them, so I don’t feel as if I have been neglecting my intellect. Still, I sometimes have the suspicion that were I French, I would not feel the slightest need to excuse or apologise for this little habit of mine.
-Nicholas Lezard, on the Independent on Sunday [ABC 25 February 2007]
This year marks the 30th anniversary of both 2000 A.D and Star Wars. Kurt Cobain would have turned 40 this year.
This year I will reach my 32nd year dwelling on this planet. I know this feeling, too, will pass, but for the time being questions of time-passing, ageing, maturing et cetera et cetera fill my head with heavy clouds…
It may only be the time of the year; the end of February and all. Or the imminence of the Ides of March…
I thought February was my silly little fetish!
One of the reasons 30 is a magic number is because we’re 30 for a very long period of our life. I’ve been 30 since I turned 28. I’m planning to stay 30 until I turn 39.
Unlike 8 years old, 15 or 24, 30 is a feeling we can rely on. It’s the one age we can truly savour, and analize.
I just hope we keep earning enough money to buy books and comics until we’re 70.
Happy prebirthday.
Todo mi cariño para ti.
Gracias Irita. Acabo de regresar de una librería con unos hermosos tabiques sobre cómics. Nada como eso. Yo también ya empecé a celebrar mi pre-cumpleaños… Me sigo sintiendo como niño cada vez que me regalo libros.
Todo mi cariño para tí, también.