Thursday, April 27, 2006

EVAN LEAVES SCHOOL

EVAN LEAVES SCHOOL

In the summer Evan left school, and started his training to be a mining engineer.  In addition to college he had to go down the mine and on the first opportunity got permission to take me down.  I was given a helmet and bright green clogs and it made a lasting impression and I had the, not very original conviction that everybody should go down the mines – at least once – to see what it is like.  Dark, damp, full of strange odours and feelings of forebodings.

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