Ways Of Escape
AVE you noticed an expression that’s always creeping into our conversation nowadays? I mean-the word escape. Means of escape. Ways of escape. Escape literature -and so on. I think I’ve said before what a tragic comment it is on the madness of this age that we’re always searching for some way to escape from reality. We each have our own safety vents, our own ways of escape. With sotnme people it’s an incessant going to the films; in that way they can forget reality for a few hours-and even go on afterwards living for a time in their world of make-believe. The very young can do this quite easily-can see themselves in just such glamorous situations and wonderful clothes-it may not. be very good for them, but I’m not sure that it does any more harm than brooding over women and children murdered in air raids-or worrying about their brothers in the firing line, With others, it’s crossword puzzles or thrillers; these two belong to the same category and have about as much contact with reality as a rule. For a time they keep you too interested in guessing the answer to have time to think. Some thrillers are a great deal more than that -but with the majority it’s just a case of clues, as with the crossword-who killed the colonel-what’s the name of an animal with nine letters beginning with y-and oh, it must heve a z in the middle. You know the sort of thing. Not good for an occupation, but all right to while away hours that drag With worry.- (" Another Means of Escape," by macy Scott, 2YA, October 1.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 120, 10 October 1941, Page 5
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277Ways Of Escape New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 120, 10 October 1941, Page 5
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