FIL »Endlich wieder jung«

Youth, the billing says, is the great one-way street full of drivers going the wrong way — so why did we have to come down it, and why do we age at all? FIL answers in thirty-seven strongly simplified lessons, with songs, and insists ageing is a physical fact rather than an attitude problem. He promises a consolation at the end and refuses to say what it is. The house introduces him in contradictions — the untroubled brooder, the quick leftist, the rough clever one — and quotes Titanic on the mixture of professionalism and amateurism that comes out as cultivated chaos.