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Now: the second-best of times.

In many cases, neither side is happy with what is getting promoted.

She loves feeling that every headway man tries to make

The metamorphosis from rash young newbie to jaded old-timer had happened slowly.

Andrew Taggart, who writes about our modern relationship to work, describes as “a first-person work‑centric story of progress about an individual’s life course.”⁠

“not yet touched by the mild boredom of order,”

Before Victoria was born, I used to grumble about couples we knew who had been lobotomized by the birth of their children. Perfectly intelligent people with whom we'd enjoyed countless debates over politics, prose, the death of the theater, or the decline of poetry now burbled at us about their little boy's first tooth or spent hours sharing the en