Three Men in a Boat - Chapter 5

As we open the book of Chapter V, we find ourselves in the familiarity of our protagonists’ modest lodgings - midst the amiable tussle between sleep and wakefulness, laziness and ambition, framed against the tick-tock silence of a lazy morning. Our protagonists, in a trifecta of unabashed nonchalance, totter under the weight of early-start broken promises.Gentle snores of slumber give way to barbed exchanges, as veils of camaraderie lift to reveal threads of resentment and recrimination, all ...