Hornby's way of saying he isn't stupid anymore...

In his monthly column in The Believer, 'Stuff I've Been Reading', Nick Hornby wisely writes:

Something has been happening to me recently—something which, I suspect, is likely to affect a significant and important part of the rest of my life. The grandiose way of describing this shift is to say that I have been slowly making my peace with antiquity; or, to express it in words that more accurately describe what’s going on, I have discovered that some old shit isn’t so bad. (My emphasis).