WELLINGTON, 1951
[RE buildings are blindly obtrusive, and unknown their architects; the hand that chips the stone, breathes life into the verb, has little air to flower in as his own; and everywhere wall-eyed accountants, lawyers, thrive with a small joy this day of being live. TRE characteristic wind is the most moving emotion among these monoliths that the living (populace of crypts) run frozen from, : Day that moves glumly in a granite frame between the smoke of towers and cigarettes fades to small-talk among the coffee-pats, FF ROM all tour compass-points is history made, and here, decisions--the keeping of files in braid and record-folders. Suddenly, sometimes, sun or a smile makes havoc, and one amazed, stands still and out of place with tears, like thorns of anguish piercing his tace.
Louis
Johnson
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 649, 7 December 1951, Page 12
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133WELLINGTON, 1951 New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 649, 7 December 1951, Page 12
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