mr. edmund morris (author): (from videotape) i once thought of showing it to him when he came here, but my wife learned that that's not a good idea. she's done exactly the same thing for clare boothe luce, who lived 84 years, and she once made the mistake of showing clare the complete sequence of her life, with all these little tabs popping up. and i remember mrs. luce reacting with shock and she turned away from it. she didn't like to see the physical totality of her life spaced out in cards. and when you think about it, you can understand why. c-span: why would we understand if we saw it? >> guest: well, it was vast, you know, and a--a life in--when it's laid out in cards, it--it sort of waxes and wanes. it starts small, then in the fullness of her career the cards got, you know, longer and longer and spa--taking up more and more space; and then, of course, toward the end, a diminishment in old age. but she went almost by instinct and picked out the card--the set of cards labeled, 'relationship with h.r.l.,' henry robinson luce. it was very uncanny. c-span: wait, wait, how old is she in