A broken blue-and-peach globe sits beside a striped party hat and scattered fragments against a blue background.

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Young Charlie

He thought the world was a horrible place. He couldn’t have been very happy, ever. He didn’t trust people. Seemed to hate them. He hated the whole world. You know, he said people like us had no idea what the world was really like.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker describes a man as bitter and mistrustful, convinced the world was horrible and people were not to be relied on. Happiness seems to have eluded him. He also insisted that people like us were ignorant of what the world was truly like, a claim reported secondhand.

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