Parlour Game
HE parlour game of resurrecting figures from the past is always popular with listeners and gives discussion groups scope for imaginative cenversation. From such games as picking the ten best films, selecting discs for a problematic desert island, or choosing the top twelve composers or books, it is only a step to deciding what fictional character you would like to meet, or what -person out of past history you would like to bring to life. A discussion group from 4YA had a gay time. with the last idea, suggested by the line, "Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour!" After Dr. Raphael’s pitiless and coldly logical reduction of the game to its impossible absurdities, it was a wonder that any of the other speakers had the temerity to allow their fancies even a short flight beyond the bounds of possibility. But indeed several names were .suggested (Roosevelt, Swift, Shakes(continued on next page)
(continued from#previous page) peare), I should haye loved to, suggest Leonartio da Vinci, It seémed t6 me, listening to the speakers’ reasons for their choices, that the type of brain possessed by Leonardo,;would have done wonders with the accumulated knowledge of the scientific age at its disposal -not to mention the antidote his sublime artistic vision- would ‘have provided for certain diseases of modern art.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 490, 12 November 1948, Page 18
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220Parlour Game New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 490, 12 November 1948, Page 18
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