But I also know that he was; for all of us -- you, me, the subject of his book, age more or less in step, proceed from birth along the same great sequence: through the wonders and confinements of childhood; the emancipations and frustrations of adolescence; the empowerments and millstones of adulthood; the recognitions and resignations of old age.
Ali isto tako znam da je; za sve nas -- tebe, mene, subjekt njegove knjige, starenje više manje postepeno, nastaviti koračati od rođenja, duž istaknutog slijeda, kroz čuda i ograničenja djetinjstva; odvojenosti i frustracija adolescencije; moćnih i velikih trenutaka zrele dobi; priznanja, ali i rezignacija odrasle dobi.