First impressions

"It's difficult to judge his age. From Elsa Lubing I know that he must be over seventy. But he looks healthy and athletic, as if every morning he walks barefoot across his beachfront and down to the sea, where he saws a hole in the ice and takes a refreshing dip, then runs back and eats a little bowl of gladiator muesli with skim milk."

(Peter Hoeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow)