The '60's. That may help!
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"Time in Thy Flight!" (1953) collected in A Medicine for Melancholy.

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Originally posted by fjp451:
"Time in Thy Flight!" (1953) collected in A Medicine for Melancholy.

Thar she blows!

Go.

Now what?

Go ahead, BII! You dig a tough one out for us!!

BTW, that last one was an interesting story. It has hints of numerous other stories in it, I thought.

Just checking in and, hey! How'd it get to be my turn?

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Originally posted by Braling II:
How'd it get to be my turn?

Cause Frank said!

Aw, shucks.
OK - I'll dig up something anon...

"He moved the lawn mower. The grass showering up fell softly around him; he relished and savored it and felt that he was all mankind bathing at last in the fresh waters of the fountain of youth."

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"He moved the lawn mower. The grass showering up fell softly around him; he relished and savored it and felt that he was all mankind bathing at last in the fresh waters of the fountain of youth."

I know the answer, but I just played. Someone else will get it.

Are you sure? I can think of 3 stories this might come from...

I'm sure.

OK, then; everybody except Doug have a go!

Sounds of Patriarch Spaulding in DW, but not! A clue, Ol' Pard!?

Oh, BII! We've been snowed in here in London, so I hunkered down with my new volume (#2) of RB stories and there, in the final story, was your quote! I always begin a book at the end, so I guess this is The End of the Beginning.