(September 20, 2012 at 9:59 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote: Seriously? Not one person wants to have a go?
This is a sad day for the literary world.
Alf Riley is nothing more than a modern day serf, as most of us are. Alf does his best, but foists his broken dreams and the lottery of success upon his spawn while keeping up the charade that 'if you work hard enough you can be anything you want'.
I feel bad for Alf. He's just a bloke with good intentions that was conditioned to accept his lot in life...go in debt to enrich others while thinking you are improving your condition. No different than a serf. Rich people's kids aren't the ones catching bullets in Iraq and Afghanistan. The usual reply is that it's an all volunteer force. This may be true, but begs the question: 'Who's volunteering?'. Not the trust fund babies.
Was this the type of conversation you wanted to extract?
