The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
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Well-fed Owen, by contrast, is a happy camper with a wry smile, every inch the laid-back
simian, plump, eyes twinkling, full mouth relaxed, skin glowing, exuding wisdom as if
he's just read Kierkegaard and concluded that "Life must be lived forward, but can only be
understood backward."
It's the difference between the guy who got the marbleized rib-eye and the guy who got
the oh-so-lean filet. Or between the guy who got a Château Grand Pontet St. Emilion with
his brie and the guy who got water. As Edgar notes in King Lear, "Ripeness is all." You
don't get to ripeness by eating apple peel for breakfast....
When life extension supplants life quality as a goal, you get the desolation of Canto the
monkey. Living to 120 holds zero appeal for me. Canto looks like he's itching to be put
out of his misery....
We don't understand what the mind secretes. The process of aging remains full of enigma.