Qualifying centuries.

 Camus described the XX th century as of "newspaper readers".  You don't have to be a deep philosopher to qualify our times as of cellphone...Up to now!

Obits

 I have started to read obits. The best part of the NYT. I read not to check who died, at what age, etc. Just to see what they had accomplished and feel bad for myself. Masochism!

Fascinating Rime

 Probably like most people I had read in my youth only several strophes of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Today I ran into it on YouTube and listened half hour to Ian McKellan. Magical. Ensorcelling. Maybe because in the meanwhile I took sailing? and could understand more words? Or just Coleridge...