"GOT"-CONSCIOUSNESS
Sir,-Your article on "got"-conscious-ness prompts me to send you this extract from "Saki" (H. H. Munro): "{ don’t think any tragedy in litera. ture that I have ever come across impressed me so much as the first one that I spelled out slowly for myself in words of three letters: the bad fox has got the red hen. There was something so dramatidally complete about it; the badness of the fox, added to all the traditional guile of his race, seemed to heighten the. horror of the hen’s fate, and there was such a suggestion of masterful malice about the word ‘got.’ One felt that a countryside in arms.would not get that hen away from the bad fox, They used to think me a slow dull reader for not getting on with my lesson, but I used to sit and picture to myself, the red hen, with its wings beating helplessly, screeching in terrified protest, or perhaps if he got it by the neck, with beak wide agape and silent, and eyes staring as it left the farmyard for
ever."-
NOT GOTLESS
(Green Island).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 262, 30 June 1944, Page 3
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184"GOT"-CONSCIOUSNESS New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 262, 30 June 1944, Page 3
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