The Leviathan by Joseph Roth


Ageing Without Grace

It is of course not only the young who stupidly want whatever they believe might be a better life. The old have their own sort of silliness. The spouse didn’t turn out a perpetual beauty. The hometown is boringly provincial. Business doesn’t have the same thrill it used to. So why not make a new start? Have a little fun? Recapture some of that lost youthful enthusiasm? Well, because that’s not how life works. It has its own trajectory upon which our plans are no more than commentary. Leviathan, not Jehovah, disposes. And Leviathan is notoriously haphazard.

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