There\u2019s a song with that title. I realized that I\u2019ve grown not older, but old! I was talking to a mature woman of 60 who hadn\u2019t heard of the phrase \u201cDig it!\u201d! What?!? But this had several impacts on me!<\/p>\n
1. I\u2019ve already forgotten temporarily what that phrase was, and that in some ways, I\u2019m \u201closing it\u201d—and that phrase, too, it time bound. (Oh, I remembered. See above.)<\/p>\n
2. \u201cDig it!\u201d was a phrase used by be-bop artists, and entered the culture with Steve Allen\u2019s Fables, his re-telling of the children\u2019s fairy stories in 1950s jargon, when I used to draw cartoons of \u201chep-cats.\u201d Indeed, there was a whole bunch of slang that did not enter—or did not stay—in the common vocabulary!<\/p>\n
3. It made me aware of how much of my life was couched in time-bound phrases. Corollaries (look it up—a term meaning \u201canother way to say it’\u201dhigh school geometry) are that I\u2019m growing older; that young people don\u2019t learn what we all learned; not everyone even back then was as intellectual as I was; substitute for the word intellectual, egocentric; also scholarly; which never occurred to me, that I was scholarly. that most people did not frequent used book stores and read a lot; etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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