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Podcast: A Literary Cornucopia
Episode: Episode 128: Bertrand Russell: "How to Grow Old"
Description: Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, and social reformer, known as a founder of analytic philosophy and a Nobel Prize winner.His early life was marked by tragedy, losing his parents, sister, and grandfather by age six, after which his grandmother cared for him and his brother. In the essay "How to Grow Old," Russell gives the reader advice on growing old (but it's really more on "how not to grow old").