Three Interesting People

Over the years I have met many people who could be classed interesting. For me, such a person has to be knowledgeable in virtually everything, and above all they have to have an enthusiasm for sharing it. In other words, they have to be akin to a polymath......I should add that when this post was set up originally I have across two other people who may be regarded as interesting. They were Tony Osborne a prolific composer and  the author and poet Keith Bosley. They appear separately on this blog. Anyway.......


Arthur Nicklin

He was a good example of what I am on about. He always seemed to know everything about anything. He also expressed this enthusiastically. He was a real character. He was a professional free lance writer, and he had written and published an endless number of articles on all kinds of subjects. The last time I saw him was in Slough High Street. He was going to do a book on psychic healers, and was intending to interview some of  them.


Kevin O'Neal


He used to visit Serena Hall virtually everday. We had loads, and loads of conversation on politics, history, science, music, and God knows what else. Always refreshing to find someone like that. A real pleasure, and inspiration.


Les

Les was a Polish man. He looked a bit like Catweazle in the famous televisions series. He was a bit of an eccentric, and as such I got on very well with him. I drew his attention to a fascinating book called the The Jesus Mysteries by Tim  Freke, and Peter Gandy. This was a scholarly tome on the "real" origins of Christianity (and nothing to do with idiot conspiracy theories). We had many informed chats about it...Ofourse, we discussed many other things as well.


Les used to live in Langley. His house was like a "bombsite". It looked as if it were going to collapse but this never  occured. He used to wear a coat...but nothing else underneath! As such he became a target for young children who would throw stones at him... notably at night when he was returning home from Tescos. On these occasions, my friend Chris would usually accompany him.


He came to England during the war after fleeing from the Nazis. He believed that they killed his brother, and had forced him to help them develop an alternative fuel for tanks.


In the UK though he  settled in Langley before the key estates were built. His wife was a Social Creditor..much to my amazement (ie. a member of Social Credit a monetary reform "movement" which is virtually non-existent in the UK *). He was an engineer of sorts on the trading estate. He had a sharp intellectual mind, and died if I recall rightly around the start of the 21st Century. Just before he passed on I saw him for the last time in Marks and Spencers at a distance, and noticed his face had been altered oddly.. presumably due to cancer. However, he recognized me.


Apart from the three above I came across someone who has Asperger's Syndrome. He seemed to know quite a bit about Ancient History most of which I already knew. Unfortunately, his delivery was deadpan, and he was unable to show real enthusiasm per se. However, he has changed a bit in this respect. But my estimation of him has gone down somewhat...by his own admission that he is a member  of the Jehovah's Witness!!




* Whilst I was at Serena Hall in Slough I met someone there who seemed to be quite interesting. For whatever reason, I mentioned Social Credit, and Clifford Douglas, its originator. I was stunned to find out  that he had actually indeed heard of him, and the economic philosophy he had expounded. He said that his "girlfriend" had written an Oxford thesis on movements concerned with political, social, and economic reform during the Great Financial Crisis. It was through her that he actually heard about the subject..which is still so "obscure", and "esoteric" at the time of typing this!!

                                            Doing a selfie...