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The above article linked to this, which is pretty great: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/sep/06/features.features11 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/

• belter 4y ago
  I found this nice enough to be worth of quote here: "...And yet from the moment I sat down next to him I felt the force of his - there is no better word - dignity. Alfred seemed totally content within himself. He did not aim to please or play on your sympathy. He was not the homeless guy on the tube singing for a drink. Everything in Alfred's life was conducted on his own terms. In some sense he was a freer man than most... ...Despite outward appearances, Alfred lived a life of total self-sufficiency and order. He kept himself meticulously clean and groomed, using a nearby airport bathroom. He hung his freshly dry-cleaned clothes from the handle of a suitcase next to his bench. He always ate a MacDonald's egg and bacon croissant for breakfast and a McDonald's fish sandwich for dinner. (Perhaps one day McDonald's will have the wit to sign Alfred up for a celebrity endorsement.) He always left a tip. Alfred was not, to put it bluntly, a bum..."
  • pyrale 4y ago
    > He was not the homeless guy on the tube singing for a drink [...] Alfred was not, to put it bluntly, a bum... Probably said by someone who laments the era of garden hermits.