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A young man employed by a Metropolitan Water Board worked an eight-hour day at a desk made from the timber of an old ship. The young man spent his lunch hours in a swimming pool, and his tea-breaks watching a canal. On Saturday mornings he worked for a fishmonger, and on Saturday afternoons he went to the Zoo to watch tropical fish swimming in the aquaria. On Sunday morning he went fishing, and on Sunday afternoons he read either 'The Parable Of The Loaves And The Fishes', or the 'Story Of Jonah And The Whale' to a Sunday School class. On alternate Sunday evenings he sang sea shanties at a seacadet's club or collected money for the Lifeboat Fund. His days off work were used up crossing and re-crossing the Channel on a ferry-boat with his girlfriend who worked in a fish-and-chip shop. In any other spare time the young man just drank the water.


Peter Greenaway