At age 64, he looks fit but older than his book - jacket photos suggest, his hair short and silvered with a boyish flip in front, his gold wire -
rimmed glasses lending a bit more grise to his longtime eminence.
She recorded the sounds produced on the
rims of
glasses on seven records, each of which renders a note value from the suggestive composition «Lachrimae or Seven Tears» (1604) by John Dowland and addresses the motif of tears as well as the Baroque lament, which
lend expression to the impermanence of happiness.