And if you're lucky enough to have an alert bartender, here is what he may tell you. That's why we played Reunion Rehearsal way back when and why we'll play Reunion Recollection ever after. It's a way of putting us in touch with the magic delirium of time. When as in a dream the doorknob to the schoolhouse turned in his hand, he found himself standing in the hall, flooded with the ancient aromas of Crayola and floor wax. With a jolt of peace he realized what my roommates seemed to have instinctively realized back in 1971, and what with any luck all of us will realize again and again before the whole shebang is over.
Life is a wink in time.
We could be young again in a heartbeat. Daniel Asa Rose, a writer from Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and Santa Monica, California, will be speaking at a Commencement Forum during his 25th reunion this month.