Chapter Three touches on what I mentioned yesterday – the aspect of age…specifically the wistfulness of old age looking back on youth.
WATCHING THE boys vanish away, Charles Halloway suppressed a sudden urge to run with them, make the pack. He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life. Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this, so the sadness could not hurt.
Look! he thought. Will runs because running is its own excuse. Jim runs because something’s up ahead of him.
Yet, strangely, they do run together.
Bradbury, Ray (2013-04-23). Something Wicked This Way Comes (Greentown) (p. 17). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
The chapter ends, as it began – with Charles Holloway pining for Continue reading