Prague 1949 > Solothurn 2015 (has started on February 25)
... never ever would he think to get as far as onto the 66... (of age)
„Turning thirty was a surprise,“ he said while lifting a brown mug to his lips. „I never thought I would live to be thirty.“
Richard Brautigan to his daughter Ianthe when she was eight years old.
In "You can't catch death"
by Ianthe Brautigan
"... A couple of centuries ago, sixty used to be considered old, and since none of us thought we would live past thirty, reaching the double of that isn’t half bad, is it?
In "The Invisible"
by Paul Auster
