senectitude

Call me lazy, if you will; write me off as a dilettante lurching toward senectitude.

She writes, "If men like to take girls' virginity, women lust after men's senectitude" and then thinks better of it: "Vulgar, and probably not even true."

But 18 months ago my foothold was not on the sheer cliff of senectitude but upon that plateau that Proust himself might have called "entre deux âges."

Remarkably, even as he approached senectitude - but well before the strokes that finally turned him inward - he could still do the things he loved to do and had spent so much time enjoying.