Hemmingway and Falling Objects

Let’s go lob cricket balls off of the Lockwood Viaduct. Don’t fret the height, my boy. Great heights aren’t always man-made. When you are old enough to ride motorcycles and sleep with beautiful women, you will find great natural heights. Mount Kilimanjaro even. Just don’t ever read “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” or anything by an American like Hemmingway. They don’t have an appreciation for the gravity of falling objects like we do. It has to do with the aerial bombings in World War II that your great-grandparents had to endure. So here’s to growing into manhood, dear boy, and throwing cricket balls from 41 meters high. I heard once that a falling cricket ball grew wings and flew away like that stupid thing from that Henry Potter movie you like so much.

Christian Bale to his son in West Yorkshire, 2022

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