Robert Evans

He's a real man of the people, a common man.

He worked as a coal miner as a boy.

Right.

Now, for his part, Jimmy simultaneously claimed to have enjoyed the work in the mines and to have been haunted by it.

Quote, But he also writes that this is the period of time in his life where he learns, quote,

And he's notably weird.

Like other people are kind of weirded out by young Jimmy.

And so he gets a job most of the time that he's a Bevan boy.

He gets a job where he's basically alone in an isolated chunk of the mine that periodically coal trucks will come through and sometimes they get derailed.

And so he has to like put them back on the tracks if they get derailed.

And so every day he just goes there and he's sitting alone for like 12 hours or whatever in a coal mine.

Like that's his job.

And this gives him a lot of time to read.

This is kind of when he claims he got his education, basically, because every day he'll come down and he'll turn on his light and he'll read books all the time while he's sitting alone in the coal mine.

He spends, he claims, three and a half years doing pretty much this.

He rarely socialized with his coworkers, and they seem to have been repelled by him.

In fact, Jimmy recalled one specific moment where this became clear to him.

Quote, instinctively regarded as strange by my mates, there came a day when they drew apart from me and I started to draw apart from the normal world.

It all started as a joke on my part.

And this is this is interesting.