His youth was fiery, glowing, tempestuous - and in age he discovereth no symptom of cool-ing. This is that which I ad-mire in him. I hate people who meet Time half-way.
Lamb was talking about his cousin, JE. Not any-one we know, probably.
Charles Lamb
Elia and The Last Essays
of Elia
My Relations, 1821
Jonathan Bate, editor
op. cit.
The t-shirt is a Cy Twombly painting in Philadelphia.
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