[YeGoblynQueenne]

>> On Disbelieving Atrocities

>> Arthur Koestler (Jan. 1944)

I wondered if the author is the Arthur Koestler, but Wikipedia tells me he was born in 1905, so if I read the following sentence correctly (i.e. meaning that the writer is 62 at the time of writing, in 1944), then the piece was written by another author of the same name, because the best-known Arthur Koestler was 39 in 1944:

>> "I know" that, the average statistical age being about 65, I may reasonably expect to live no more than another 2.7 years, (...)

And yet, a cursory search on the internet suggests the well-known Arthur Koestler was, indeed the writer of the piece. What gives?

[cfmcdonald]

I believe the . is a typo, and it's 27 years. That also lines up with the date he gives for his death, in 1970.

[hjek]

Probably an OCR glitch even, as the text has some OCR cliches in it:

> and regard these as black-and-white altematives.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18374359

[YeGoblynQueenne]

Duh. You're right, simplest explanation.

Cheers :)