Thank you one and all for the birthday wishes. It warms an old philosopher's heart.
Today I enter the annual twenty day period when Susie and I
are the same age. She was born on
January 16th, 1933 and has, for as long as I have known her, been a year older
than I. This age difference cannot be an
accident. My father's father, Barnet
Wolff, the co-founder of the Brooklyn branch of the Socialist Party, was a year
younger than his wife, Ella. And his oldest
son Walter, my father, was a year younger than my mother, Lotte. What is more, Barnet fell in love with Ella
when he was a teenager. My father fell
in love with my mother when he was a teenager.
And I fell in love with Susie when I was fourteen [although in my case,
it took me another thirty-nine years to persuade her to marry me.] How on earth do these things get passed on
from generation to generation? I
honestly do not know. There are also
striking psychodynamic similarities in the three relationships, a fact I
discovered late in life when I inherited and edited the vast cache of love
letters exchanged by my grandparents and my parents.
Susie and I celebrated my birthday yesterday by going to see
the new movie about Alan Turing, The
Imitation Game. It is a very
powerful movie, but deeply upsetting. When
it ended, I sat in my seat and wept uncontrollably for some minutes, something
I have not done in many, many years.
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