Sorry to all the people who get bored by all the passages from books...
well, not really.
Tony Parsons (author)
But I wasn't ready to grow old and cold, hating women and the world because of what had happened to me. I didn't want to be fat, bald and forty, boring my teenage son to tears about all the sacrifices I had made for him. I wanted some more life. one more chance to get it right. that's what i wanted. That didn't seem like much to ask. Just one more chance.
Then the next day, Gina's dad came round to our place with his daughter Sally, the sulky teenage girl on the sofa, one of the many kids that Glenn had begat and abandoned as he moved to sexier pastures, and it crossed my mind that what has truly messed up the lousy modern world is all the people who always want one more chance.- (pg186-187)
For the first time in my life I could sort of understand why men of my age go out with younger women.
I never really got it before. Women in their thirties, their bodies are still springy and you can talk to them. They are still young, but they have seen something of life - probably quite a few of the same views that you have seen.
Why would any man trade that kind of equal partnership for someone with a pierced navel whose idea of a hot date is some awful nightclub and half a tab of something pretending to be Ecstasy?
If you can go out with someone who has read the same books as you, who has watched the same television programmes as you, who has loved the same music as you, then why would you want someone whose idea of a soul singer is the guy in Jamiroquai?
But now i got it. Now i could understand the attraction.
Men of my age like younger women because the younger woman has fewer reasons to be bitter.
The younger woman is less likely to have had her heart bashed around by broken homes, divorce lawyers and the sight of children who are missing a parent. The younger woman doesn't have all those disappointments that women and men, too, don't forget the men - in their thirties drag around with them like so much excess luggage.
It was cruel but true. The younger woman is far less likely to have had her life fucked up by some man.
Men in their thirties and forties don't go out with a younger woman for her bouncy body and her pierced tongue. That's just propaganda.
They go out with her so that they can be the one who fucks up her life.- (pg210-211)
And one really good line (:
'I'm a man, Harry. And the reason I'm here is to plant my seed in as many places as I possibly can. That's why we're here. That's what men do.''Bollocks,' I said.
'That's what boys do'- (pg208)
Tony Parsons (author)
Third time rereading the book now :)
Still love it.
Still love it.
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