Original artwork, not a still
Something Wicked This Way Comes · 1962
The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Jim can't stop taking in the world around him. The image of its laundry makes that attention feel like work, piling up faster than his years. By thirteen he seems to carry far more experience than his age suggests, because he never gives himself a break from looking.
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