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The Great Depression

[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 19.05.2016] The natural born pyromaniac in me edges closer still, despite the increasingly unbearable heat emanating from the pit directly in front of me. If it feels as though I am a willing co-voyager on Jules Verne’s Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, about to descend deep into the earth’s bowels, then it …

“I loved it when my father got himself worked up like this. Listening to him during those early years, I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”

‘My Uncle Oswald’ – Roald Dahl