Lucy Schiller at Literary Hub:For the humors-focused, centuries ago, old age was “the age of phlegm.” Oldness was “about rot, meanness, avarice, cowardice, peevishness, irascibility, moroseness, whining, bad eyes, deafness, dripping noses, hacking coughs, baldness, loss of teeth, reeking breath, loss of libido, sagging flesh, forgetfulness, repetitive garrulity.” From my pink couch in Pittsburgh, I read this hodgepodge of age-fear, the sunlight slanting down through the dark wood windows. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.