Time Travellers

An interesting counterpart to our most recent Book Club Pick is F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." I had forgotten about this story until I saw a trailer for a movie of the same name on TV (looks like it's going to come out later this year). In the story, the main character, Benjamin, is born mentally young, but with the body of an old man. Over the course of his life, he grows mentally older and physically younger, until at the end he is mentally and physically like a baby and his existence comes to an end. In the story (the middle of his life sometime) he meets a girl and I think they eventually get married, but it doesn' t work out (he is growing physically younger and she is growing physically older). A really neat little story - and a lot shorter than Time Traveller's Wife!