This is a problem that needs to be solvedmentally, not with brute force.
2000, Bill Manhire,Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews, page124:
The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old manmentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.