" A lot can be accomplished in six days. If only I manage to stay alive... I've been frail for a pretty long time. The last thirty or forty years, really. I suppose I'm singing my last refrain, as they say. Of course, Noah lived to be nine hundred and fifty. The difference is that I'm real. "

― Jonas Jonasson , The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #2)