The ditty written long ago is more accurate today than when pen met parchment. The exact wording may not be 100% accurate, but here’s how I remember its four lines: “How much I have seen and how much I have read, of the struggles of man to get ahead. But me, I ‘m busy—both body and mind—in the struggle to keep from getting behind.”
The ever-so-tight shoe fits. We are heirs to a world in which we sl…