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Reminds me of a line from Douglas Adams’ Life, the Universe, and Everything.
He dropped into a kind of alert crouch that he had once seen somebody do on television, but it must have been someone with stronger knees.
Obviously she’s never heard of Cohen the Barbarian and the Silver Hoard!
Read Dashiell Hammett’s books.
The Thin Man’s hero is pushing forty, and the Continental Op is ‘neither young enough or old enough to think any woman finds [him] fascinating.’
Would read a book about a 40-50 year old that has to leave his job to slay the dragon and save the world.
Sounds like Rincewind and Cohen the Barbarian, all right.
Ah ha ha gotta reread those gems!
Not too far off. The main character is a venerable 51.
In 1930’s Britain, the average lifespan of an Englishman was 60. Hobbits had an average lifespan of 100. So a 51 year old Bilbo was the same as a 30 year old Englishman.
