The Virginia Monologues by Virginia Ironside

Author:Virginia Ironside
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2009-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.

Colette

If, all your life, you have felt utterly humiliated by having to reply, when asked what you do, with the words: ‘Shelf-stacking at Sainsbury’s’, you are now in the wonderful position of being able to answer instead: ‘Well, actually, I’m retired.’ It’s a very crass person who will then ask what you are retired from. And if they do, you can just airily brush them aside with a groan and a ‘Don’t ask… The travelling… the meetings… thank God it’s all behind me.’ They are not to know that the travelling involved taking a tube from Greenford to Wood Green and then a bus, every day. And the meetings? Nothing more than directing people to the butter.

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