Posted by John Nichols on September 09, 2003 at 15:07:29 from 165.91.196.181 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: The Naze posted by Peter Ceresole on September 09, 2003 at 14:14:08:
Are you the boys that caught that fish?" he asked.
"We didn't exactly...." began Joe.
"Poor lads," said the old man. "Poor lads.... So young and with nothing left to live for."
I first read that when I was eight. It took me years to realise what it meant, and that it was a genuine piece of deep, deep human understanding.
That is without doubt the best line that AR ever wrote. I love that saying, and I have used it once or twice, although most people seem oblivious to the meaning or the irony of it all.
AR showed that simple stuff is fun and exciting.
John