The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.

Saul Bellow
The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after...
The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after...
The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after...
The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after...
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The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether. The organism is a term used to describe how a person or other living thing functions. In this quote, the author is saying that humans go through one stage of maturity and then another, and each time we do we seem to regress back to our infantile state. We grow up and we grow old, but in between there are periods of time when we are more childlike than adult.

Sometimes our mental development is so slow that it takes us years before we learn something new. During this time, people can be foolish even though they are older.

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