Brief Candles
AILY journalism results in ‘such an ephemeral product that it’s a little unsatisfying. Every day one goes through the pangs of birth with some little masterpiece, and by nightfall one has the dismal experience of seeing it lying in the gutter. It’s the same thing if one happens to be writing for a weekly paper or a monthly magazine-you peep over people’s shoulders and find they’re reading something else; so you feel strangely’ offended. And then sooner or’ later one feels the familiar little pang of tragedy when one sorts the fish from the chips and there, peeping coyly through the grease stains, is that same minor masterpiece.-John Spedding, in an NZBS Book Shop talk.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 20
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