This month's Atlantic has a fun list, Innocence and Experience, "a compilation of great moments in precocity, endurance, and procrastination, organized instructively by age." Here are a few:
Age 6. Alfred Hitchcock’s father sends him down to the police station with a note instructing the officer in charge to lock him in a cell for five minutes, circa 1905.
Age 13, Spanky McFarland retires from Our Gang, 1942.
Age 39. Ian Fleming vacations in Jamaica with his mistress, 1948. While there he purchases a copy of Birds of the West Indies, by the ornithologist James Bond.
It's adapted from A Book of Ages: An Eccentric Miscellany of Great and Offbeat Moments in the Lives of the Famous and Infamous, Ages 1 to 100
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