In an article about The Boys of Dungeon Lane, journalist Pete Paphides remembers interviewing Paul, who is being particularly Paul:
“I think things that are happy are also intrinsically sad. They contain the seed of sadness. Let’s imagine we’re making a film, and there’s a person on a beach. It’s a very very sunny day, and the waves are lapping in. Now, that can sort of be happy or sad. It tends to depend on what music you play. Even if you play…” He pretended to be a brass band playing I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside. I told him that I could almost see those Victorian ghosts in stripy bathing costumes before me. “That’s what I mean!” He replies. “One day, when we discover the meaning of life, that will somehow be contained within it. That happy is sad and sad is happy.”
“He pretended to be a brass band”. Of course he did.
