Sergeant Clotho
HE drawing of a major art union provides a broadcast session more dramatic than most serials. Whether or not we hold tickets ourselves, we can listen with a pure unenvious pleasure
as a fairy tale comes true for someone else. But there is more in it than that. We are actually hearing the machinery of fate at work, Mr. A. is there on behalf of the Department of Internal Affairs, Sergeant B keeps an eye on it
for the police, and draws the numbers, a Voice from a third person calls the name of the winner. The numbered marbles are shaken in their vessel, we hear them moving, and in our mind that container becomes the Spindle thet turns on the knees of Necessity; as we cannot see Mr. A of the Department of Internal Affairs, nor the Sergeant of Police, nor the Voice, there is nothing to stop us casting them as the three Fates, the sisters Lachesis, Clotho, and Atropos, dressed in white and garlanded as they seal each individual’s destiny. In fact, the Viewsreel Commentator finds once more that he has set out to deal with a modern phenomenon, only to femember that the Greeks had words for it, and in this case he must retire in favour of Plato, who has described the whole thing so much better in the last few pages of the Republic.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 358, 3 May 1946, Page 15
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232Sergeant Clotho New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 358, 3 May 1946, Page 15
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