Hard Times 2009: Part 3, The great escape

It’s not just a big-budget, high drama, beautiful game. Continuing a series that looks at the nation through the lens of Charles Dickens’ Hard Times, Paul Vallely finds out why football is a social service for an insecure age – Mr Gradgrind had reached the neutral ground upon the outskirts of the town when his ears were invaded by the sound of music. The clashing and banging band attached to the horse-riding establishment, which had there set up its rest in a wooden pavilion, was in full bray. – Dumb with amazement, Mr Gradgrind crossed to the spot where his family was, laid his hand upon each erring child, and said: “Louisa!! Thomas!!” – “In the name of wonder, idleness, and folly!” said Mr Gradgrind, leading each away by a hand; “what do you do here?” “I was tired, father. I have been tired a long time,” said Louisa.”Tired? Of what?” asked the astonished father. “I don’t know of what – of everything, I think.” – Hard Times, by Charles Dickens… – (Source: independent.co.uk)

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