

“Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on ths continent a new nation conceived in liberty…” (Lincoln’s Gettysburg adress)
The only way to stay out of trouble is to grow old
Q and 007 are seating in room 34 of the National Gallery, supposedly looking at Turner’s The Fighting Téméraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up (“A big bloody ship”). Behind them are Joseph Wright’s An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump and Gainsborough’s The Morning Walk.
(« Comme je me sens vieux, comme je me sens peu fait pour l’être, jamais je ne vais savoir être vieux. »)
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura…
Dante, La divina commedia, canto I
(Amours dans la neige)