Lowest Ebb /January 31, 2019 by Dale Decker “I have reached, she thought, a human being’s lowest ebb; I have no curiosity about the future. I know what the future will be; the Rule sets it out for me.” — Sister Philomena in the novel Fludd by Hilary Mantel I read this at a time when I was contemplating my own future, having just turned 50.