elderly

phobia

child

one-liner

nonsense question

is evolutionary useful in that they give the young some kind of psychic shield from reality, allowing them to ignore the fact that age and death would come to them too, and could come early and out of sequence.

This was perhaps the evolutionary usefulness of the elderly, Bao had concluded: to give the young some kind of psychic shield from reality, putting them under a description which allowed them to ignore the fact that age and death would come to them too, and could come early and out of sequence.

is unreliable --- one should not ask the time of a rusty clock.

One should not ask the time of a rusty clock.

elderly, n.Definitions

elderly