Robert Evans

The way he describes that is like this is when I drew apart from the normal world is really compelling to me.

So let's talk about this joke that he plays that he thinks severs him from from normal society.

So one day he shows up late for work, still dressed in his best suit that he'd been wearing the night before.

I think he'd been out at the club or something like that, and he had no time to change.

So he goes down wearing a suit, which perplexes his peers, right?

Because you're going to ruin whatever you're wearing if you take it into the coal mine.

And because he doesn't want to destroy his best suit, once he gets into his position down there, because he's spending the whole day alone, he just strips naked and he wraps the suit in newspaper and he works in the nude all day.

Then at the end of his shift, he like cleans his face and his hands off and he puts the suit back on.

And so it appears as he walks out that he's leaving the mine wearing a clean suit, looking like he had when he'd gone down the start of the day.

Quote, in the history of coal mining, no one had spent eight hours underground and emerged clean.

Not a smudge on the collar or cuffs.

Witchcraft it may not be, but unnatural it certainly was.

And I was branded from that moment.

Right?

What's so weird, dude?

That's really odd, Jimmy.

Oh, shit.

So Dan Davies, the author of In Plain Sight, asked him about this decades, like 60-something years later.

And when he asks Jimmy about this moment, like why he did this, Saville responded, I wasn't sure what it did, but it did develop my out-of-the-box thinking.

I didn't do it for any reason.