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Unnamed Narrator 44

This trudging would have been good for the walking muscles, the legs and so on. I stayed along the central artery, crossing many streets and one river, into crowds of people. Nobody would know me. It was too unlikely. So many years had gone by. I used to be young; bushy-tailed. Now here I was. Broken dreams? Forty-four years of age. That is not old. But it is certainly not young, it is not young. My old man was a grandfather at the same age. I needed to phone him and my mother, she would know how he was. Keep an eye on the kids, check it out with the wife. Ah fuck, problems.

James Kelman  ·  ‘Back In That Town’

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Tome Obd

The Boarding-House

William Trevor

"I am forty-four. Is it my skin that makes me look younger? How can a man of forty-four be a baby?"

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Adrian Leverkühn

Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn, Told by a Friend (Doktor Faustus: Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde)

Thomas Mann

"But first I dare not neglect to shed some light on the personal state of its creator, age forty-four at the time, on his appearance and way of life as it presented itself to my ever anxious observation..."

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Thayer Darcy

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

""Monsignor was forty-four then, and bustling—a trifle too stout for symmetry, with hair the color of spun gold...""

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Gradus

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

"...he had tried several times to castrate himself, had been laid up at Glassman Hospital with a severe infection, and now, at forty-four was quite cured of that last lust of Nature..."

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Edmund Widdowson

The Odd Women

George Gissing

"I began to earn my own living when I was fourteen, and now I am forty-four – to-day...."

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Tommy Wilhelm

Seize the Day

Saul Bellow

"... forty-four years old, father of two sons, at present living in the Hotel Gloriana, was assigned to be the carrier of a load which was his own self, his characteristic self..."