a few lines from John Barth's TOGA PARTY

recent/current reading quote:


. . . Over the past year or two, though, as he’d approached and then attained the three-quarter mark, he had by his own acknowledgment become rather stick-in the-muddish, not so much depressed by the prospect of imminent old age as subdued by it, de-zested, his get up and go all but gotten up and gone, as he had observed to be the case with others at his age and stage (though by no means all) among their limited social acquaintance.



Toga Party, John Barth, a short story in THE DEVELOPMENT (2008)

again, a first, first thing I have read by John Barth.