Considering it Carefully They tell me I ought to exercise to lose weight, that around 50 it's very dangerous to smoke and be fat, it's important to keep your figure, and fight against time and age. Well-meaning experts and friends who are doctors recommend diets and systems for prolonging life for a few more years. I thank them with all my heart but I have to laugh at such vain dodges and petty concern. (Death also laughs at all such things). The one bit of advice that I consider seriously is to find a young woman to have in bed because at this altitude youth can reach us only by contagion