Question:“On the year-end party”
On the year-end party
A gathering to send off a year is a gathering to count it. The counting comes before the cup.
Before you go, write down one thing you did well this year and one you did badly. At the table, ask about other people’s years. Yours is already written. You need not say it.
In the hall of Alcinous, Odysseus heard the song of Troy and covered his face and wept. His own years had become a song.