COMING ROUND THE BEND...
With
Denis
Glover
()NE of the joys of a democracy is that we have such a right to differ that an editor is as equally concerned with his correspondence columns as with his featured articles. UT gentility and circumlocution are not much use as a hammer for brass tacks. Two recent letters to the editor of The Listener began: ‘"Sir,-lI feel compelled to take up my pen in protest against . ..," and "Sir,-May I express my astonishment at..." 4 [Tt is good that those who affect a poniard should stab to kill. ‘ONCE upon a time there was undoubtedly a sinister threat in the name of the Red Indian chief which goes, translated, "Pick You Up and Make You
Fly Through the Air." Today he is probably a thoroughly qualified airline pilot. IKE everyone, I have in my ‘time done a good deal of stamp-licking. It would be so easy for the Post Office to flavour the gum. JHEN you're in a jam it’s a great thing to be able to think, "Well, here’s a moment in time that will never occur again." In pleasures one should do the same but somehow doesn’t. *T)OGS not permitted on these premises." Never a word to say Gay Dogs or Sad Dogs. I have a small thing to say Before the end of the play: Folly occurs naturally, my son, Wisdom has to be won.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 14
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235COMING ROUND THE BEND... New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 14
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