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Going Down?

W HEN an educated New Zealander comes to write about his own childhood in terms of the colloquial, the native in himself, he often has the devil’s own job to do it. When I try ] always think of myself as going down a sort of lift into the underground. On the first floor down I discard the baggage of my abstract conceptions collected at the university. Second floor I bundle out a ponderous grammatical style picked up at high school, largely under .the influence of Latin masters. And on the third floor I lightly flip off the primary school labels called "correct English writing and pronunciation." On the fourth floor down... writing begins. Here at last it is possible to devote oneself in an unencumbered fashion to writing about one’s own New Zealand childhood in the very language rhythms of that childhood itself-Brian Sutton-Smith, ir an NZBS Book Shop talk.

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 730, 10 July 1953, Page 15

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Going Down? New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 730, 10 July 1953, Page 15

Going Down? New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 730, 10 July 1953, Page 15

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