On 8/17/20 9:54 PM, Patrick Moore wrote:
As the Book of Job saith ("seth,") /Wisdom is with the aged, and
understanding in length of days./ (King James version, 1611,
non-revised, accept no substitutes, amen.)
Moulton has always been and is now and ever shall be a simple Brit
working class bloke, but a capacity for self-reflection augmented by
the detachment of old age (he's 84 -- and still cycling) has him
posting some interesting observations; among which, this one:
Obviously, Dave and not Alex. Alex was 92 when he died in 2012, a
professional engineer who went to Kings College Cambridge and lived &
worked in a castle.
The Moulton Factory Moulton — The Traditional Cycle Shop
http://davesbikeblog.squarespace.com/blog/2020/8/17/a-slice-in-time.html?lastPage=true&postSubmitted=true
I'm a generation younger -- born into Ike's first adminstration -- but
am temporally close enough to get a sense and to have sympathy for
Moulton's situation. My parents were upper/professional class while
Moulton was very definitely working class, but I grew up in
ex-Brit-Raj-colonies and have read -- and watched -- widely in modern
Brit Lit and Hist and Cultural goings-on, and Moulton's description of
his boyhood and young adulthood resonate because even if I didn't live
them, I read much about them and watch much about them.
To grow up with a father distanced from his family by 5 years of
horrible wartime experiences; and someone who, doubtless, was ill
educated and not at all prone to reflect on his own experiences, his
own reactions to these, and to the effect on his family of these
reactions -- it's sad to think about Moulton growing up in such family
circumstances; sad to think of his father's effect on his mother.
But age also bringeth resolution, and Moulton has come to the end of
his life with an attitude of acceptance, forgiveness, equanimity, and
peace that makes these his late musing interesting by human criteria,
as well as by cycling criteria.
--
Steve Palincsar
Alexandria, Virginia
USA
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