“Eighty years later he could still recall with the young pang of the original joy his falling in love with Ada. At ninety-four he liked retracing that first amorous summer not as a dream he had just had but as a recapitulation of consciousness to sustain him in the small gray hours between shallow sleep and the first pill of the day. Take over, dear, for a little while. Ada, please!”

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