Runaway Successors

[steepholm]

Thomas Hobbes is said (by Aubrey, I think) to have attributed his physical cowardice to his pregnant mother's shock on hearing of the approach of the Spanish Armada. Perhaps I can claim the same excuse, with reference to the Cuban Missile Crisis? It was fifty years ago this month, and although I didn't know much about it at the time, being dug in for the duration in my uterine private shelter, who knows what amniotic alarm bells were being rung?

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[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite born yet! But today I enter my third trimester, so the clock is ticking...

[gillo]

It's extremely unfair to flaunt your relative youth thus.

I can't actually remember the crisis, just my parents telling me about it later. Oddly, I do remember the US primaries of two years before, because I thought Goldwater was a prettier name than Kennedy.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I thought Goldwater was a prettier name than Kennedy.

And so, to be fair, it is.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Fifty?

Mere young thing, so you are! :o)

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Fifty on Burns's Night. I'm still clinging to the last tattered remnants of early middle-age!