Will Pavia interviewed the now late Martin Amis in 2018,
when Amis was in his late 60s, not so very long before
his death as it turns out.
Amis said, ‘I’m more and more averse to any kind of exertion.’ And then discussing the walk to his local grocery store he said, ‘When I come around the corner and look up the street (I think) that’s a long way.’
I wonder if it had something to do with the cigarettes.
From the Smithsonian magazine
You know, sometimes I look out of my window and see old people struggling with walking sticks and Zimmer frames and occasionally Nordic poles, and I admire them enormously because they’re still out there, determined to carry on walking. But at the same time I think, if I had that much difficulty walking, if I needed a stick or a Zimmer frame or Nordic poles I don’t think I’d ever leave the house. No doubt time will tell.
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