Beneath The Stars
T was a little bold of 3ZB to choose this particular season to wax starryeyed over the joys of sleeping out. I wonder if the compiler of this particular "Landscape in Words and Music" has indulged his fancy for sleeping beneath the stars recently. The stillness of the night on which he dwells, for instance, with the cows lowing in the distance and "the small noises of birds" is a pretty fallacy at any time; and not so pretty when the cows are chewing viciously at the tent ropes, and the entire complement of neighbouring farm dogs is baying the moon. But to give him his due, this scriptwriter’s memory has not failed him altogether. He re-calls-a little incongruously with the romantic flavour of the rest-that slumber on tussock grass is not as peaceful and profound beneath the stars as one might be led to believe. I suspect, too, that his star-gazing has been the consequences of insomnia, and not merely a pleasant alternative, to sleep,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 450, 6 February 1948, Page 9
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169Beneath The Stars New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 450, 6 February 1948, Page 9
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