"TO A JET PILOT"
Sir-For his manners, your correspondenht David R. Watson deserves to be sat upon -by heavier bottoms than mine; but, personalities apart, "one cannot condone" criticism "of this nature." To do so would be to confess ourselves "unable to distinguish between the pretentious aspirant and the genuine literary artificer." To take up some of Mr.- Watson’s objections: (1) "amorous vault." Is it so difficult to feel that: the airman ‘is being received, nay, rapturously welcomed, into another element as he rises from the earth? (2) To look "from" something "to" something else means to shift one’s gaze, and does. not indicate the Igoker’s position; has Mr. Watson neyer looked from left to right? (3) The translation of "Mene, mene, tekel . , ." and the circumstances as related in the book of Daniel may relieve Mr. Watson’s perplexity. (49 "God’s fire" is possibly. not unconnected with the "tinder" cradled in the dwellings of men, the evil in their hearts. (5) But Mr. Watson’s really spectacular smash-up is his inability to see any difference *agtietenr: the cliché use of "bundle of nerves" .and Mr. use of the phrase.’ / Would-be ee should abstain from writing until they have lIéarnt to read. > & vt
D. M.
ANDERSON
(Dunedin)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 5
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204"TO A JET PILOT" New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 5
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