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@Skülly
What's 'The Prodigy' like Hobo? I've only read Siddartha and I read it again, twice.
I'm reading Akenfield at the moment, incredible stuff, unputdownable. Think I might have read it before but its the klind of book where it doesn't really matter if you just dip in and out. Thes old dudes talking about working with a team of horses, ploughing, at the age of 8! One of them was saying last night (and I have to imagine a strong Suffolk accent when I read it) 'Nowadays people are always playing at this or that, football or rugby. I never played anything in my life, only pleasure was a bit of singing while I worked, and some rest when I sleep. And they've all got to have money these days, haven't they? We never had nothing! Lived on nothing. But we always had a cooked meal every day ... now you hear the paper packets being opened, five minutes later its ready, they say its a meal?! That's not what I call a meal.'
You get the idea. Makes me think that we're pretty ignorant of what our formothers and forefathers did to get through life, and where their priorities lay in contrast to what we call 'happiness' now. I feel very lucky to be here now.