X-Message-Number: 4423 Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 18:02:11 -0400 From: "Keith F. Lynch" <> Subject: Three score and ten Jim Davidson <> writes: > Perhaps from the popularity of Housman's work, especially this > particular poem, the concept that 70 years was a fixed limit gained > popularity. Housman makes it seem from his math as if the threescore > years and ten were a fixed upper limit, a "given." Ironically, Housman himself lived to be 77. This was unusual at that time. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4423