[lit-ideas] Re: School Daze/The Modern World

P.S. The aging eyes thing is real. Has to do with increasing weakness in the
muscles that control the motions of the eyeball and thus the distance at
which your eyes are focused.
I've read about it in books, John. However, although a weakening of the muscles may play a small part in presbyopia (from presbyteros = old guy + opia) the primary causes is an apparently inevitable hardening of the lenses, which with time become too rigid to be formed into the shape necessary for focusing on things close up. 

(My dog is proofreading this.)

Robert Paul,
waiting for the Aurigid meteor storm,
somewhere south of Reed College

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