Reply to a Monologue and a Soliloquy

New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 259, 9 June 1944, Page 9

Reply to a Monologue and a Soliloquy

CaS may be all very well Mr. Voégt. Having fun with morons is : probably very gratifying to one’s own particular ego Mr. Fairburn. O set up as an Evangelist takes courage. But how often does his crusade degenerate into a mere tagging along after a dim Grail? F we have blackberries Mr. Vogt We also have babies. And it isn’t the eternal mother in me but a cold matter of statistics Which says that we New Zealanders have the lowest infant mortality rate in the world. he pak stage jc is a bad thing in a nation Mr. Fairburn. It can be equally bad in a critic. We may be gutless; Our hands may be clasped over our stomachs in a perpetual afternoon doze of complacency; Our pack-cry on the football field probably does come through a yattering mesh of false teeth; But we seem in spite of all this to have acquired some smattering of social conscience. How many leaves out of our book did Sir William copy when he was making up his Report? Saeed could go on like this for a long time putting up pros to match your vast array of cons. But that really isn’t the argument. HAT is trying to be said Goes something like thisON’T ask so many questions Mr. Vogt. Answer a few tor us. And in the meantime pack up your gumboots, Put on your shoes again. The mud around here isn’t nearly as thick or as engulfing as you appear to think. Dr us not from Olympian heights Mr. Fairburn. But come down and mingle among us. Treat us occasionally to the pointing Rather than the admonishing finger. If you were a better psychologist . ou would know hat the fool of the family is usually the one with an inferiority apn sand grafted on By a succession naggers who keep on telling him To pull his socks up to blow his nose.

Isobel

Andrews