The two funnymen bond by the river as they recuperate from heart operations and contemplate life without biscuitsI remember it well. Staring at - practically hypnotised by - the float, a little orange stick in the water, willing it to twitch. And then, when it does, that magical moment, not quite believing it. Did it really happen, or did I imagine it? It twitches again, bobs down and goes under. You pick up the rod and strike. Yes! Resistance, a connection via a thin nylon thread to a fish. We're in.It is a childhood memory: I don't do fishing much these days, but I know that if I went again, it would come rushing back, that heart-quickening thrill, interspersed by long periods of very little. Continue reading...
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing - a comic reflection on life, mortality and tench
20. června 2018 0:00
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Zdroj: The Guardian