Last week’s travels underground with my brother made it very clear to me that tunnelling isn’t some marginal pursuit of the very rich or the insanely adventurous. It’s as if human beings are in some way pre-disposed to it - like dogs (well, my dog anyway...).
We’ve all tunnelled down to the bottom of the bed at night as a child, haven’t we? Remember that feeling?
I remember as a child too reading Hotspur comics under the covers, and being inspired by The Black Sapper to go out into the school grounds at break time and start digging. I imagined what it might be like to be confined inside The Mole – the canister with drill bits inside which the Black Sapper lived.
Is this how Paul lives? We need to know.
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