According to the great lie of popular belief, the elderly possess more wisdom and serenity than the young. Having reached a certain age, the body is freed from its most insistent needs, its lustful desires, voracious appetites, and hotheadedness. Old people are tolerant, they prefer peace to war, they’re good listeners, and when they speak, it’s with words set in bronze from a marble plinth to which time and patience have raised them, and where they will live out their days, turned to stone, an example and reminder for generations to come. Pure bullshit, thinks Ramón Ortiz. Old people are
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