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: 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. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgsRW-3AYZDap%3DNGFJVvfr4ZfDmWDPDDJbNWbBM%2BgX05%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com.
