Currently writing about this book for one of my essays, it's entitled 'A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters' by Julian Barnes:
"His age and status induced in me the normal mixture of deference, fear and cheek. His decrepitude - the historically stained clothes, that dangle of egg-white slobber from the chin - set off in me a general adolescent anger against life and its inevitable valedictory condition: a feeling which smoothly translated itself into hatred of the person undergoing that condition. His daughter fed him on tins of baby food, which again confirmed for me the sour joke of existence"
(page 205)
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