VERBAL FLY-FISHING
Sir-If I may yet further use your valuable space, I should like to reply to "Winchester" (Auckland), with regard to his letter in this week’s Listener (January 10). Firstly, I should like to deny that I affected to despise ancient writers. I have the greatest admiration for them. Secondly, "Winchester" confirms my opinion thgt he must be a "snob." Thirdly, as he challenges my ancestry in his reference to my apparently being "a good honest son of the proletariat," I shall ask him if he can claim one of semi-royal tradition, dating back over 2000 years as I can? Fourthly, I shall be glad to accept the loan of his two books which he insinuates might teach me an appreciation of culture, that is, of course, if I have not already read them. Fifthly, I wonder if "Winchester" would give me the opportunity to try and appreciate his own culture by doing a sonnet, provided that you, sir, would give it space in The Listener, I to nominate the subject? In fairness to him, I am willing to endeavour to do one; he to nominate a subject. The subject I suggest at random
is "Summer Night.’-
NEUTRAL
(Petone)
(We shall not refuse space to the Muse if she asks ior it in worthy words.-Ed.).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 4
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216VERBAL FLY-FISHING New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 4
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