2025-04-18
It isn't often we come across a story of derring-do, underpinned by a helping of childish fantasy and a conviction that the world is there for the taking. Here was a man for whom the State's promise of fake safety in exchange for real compliance would be brushed aside with contempt - and rightly so.
These days such a man would be labelled as "eccentric" and probably worse - but he would also attract (possibly surreptitious) admiration for daring to make such an absurd life, regardless.
We need more such men, who reject the orthodoxy of their day, celebrate childish fantasy, and leave the world saddened by their passing.
"Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven" - Matthew 18:3
