Nicholas Dames is Theodore Kahan Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. A time when we feel more sharply our own limitations. In her 1871 novel Middlemarch, the English writer George Eliot explored this experience of ‘middleness’-a time halfway between what has already happened, and what has yet to happen. But more often, they’re dramatically different. We come to realize that there are larger, invisible forces that tend to have just as much a say, or more, in how our lives go as we do.
Sometimes these paths are close to what we imagined in our youth. By the time we reach middle age, our lives have taken certain paths.
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