to redarn an old pair of socks

Historically, quadratic form theory has been treated as a rich but misunderstood uncle.

This is the haziest part of my recollection, in that I have been driven in my mind to befog and becurtain such early days that lacked an ambiguity proper to my status now, yet out of that dampening mist and forceful if cloudy horror rose my proper character, with eyes so open they wept in the sunlight, and heart so seared it could do no other than prompt a lifetime of resistance and revolution.

The youngest ever Oscar-winner is an actress called Tatum O'Neal, who was ten when she won Best Supporting Act for the film Paper Moon (1973).