You've heard that life begins after forty, but this headline from The Instructor, 1953, suggests the opposite: "Life begins before forty."
Life begins after ...
- death
- coffee
- sunset
- a reset
- puberty
- analysis
- midnight
- retirement
- five o'clock
- high school
- you get fired
- you say "I do"
- business hours
- the question mark
- the transfiguration
- the day of judgement
- weapons are returned
- the introductory chapters
- one's second cup of coffee
- putting your house in order
- spending days lying under a pear tree
- one enters a state of superconsciousness
[Snippets gathered through the course of our research]
