Somewhat unrelated but this article reminded me about a passage from "The Book of the New Sun" where the protagonist of the book meets with the master of the gu

Somewhat unrelated but this article reminded me about a passage from "The Book of the New Sun" where the protagonist of the book meets with the master of the guild of librarians. The library is pitch black and the librarian in his old age has gone blind but still holds onto his position as master librarian and his apprentice who is now a balding man in his middle years still attends him waiting for his master to pass away so that he can assume the mantle. The master in the story still exceeds at his work despite his blindness and his blindness is actually what enabled him to discover via touch that the material of the books themselves was just as impressive as the contents :) I imagine the result of removing something like forced retirement ages is similarly nuanced