ANTIPODEAN
Sir-"Loquax" . ih your issue of August’14 says that’a sélection of Miss BRileen Duggan’s ‘verse» made a_ version of antipodean Christianity. My impression of this poétess’s writing, conceding that there may be territorial variations in the character af a faith, is that it conveys an appfoach to ‘religion that otily a New Zealander could express. For antipodean Christianity one must lovk to other devotional verse;’ for instan¢e, the Christian Yeat beneath the Southern. Cross. It has, however, been suggested to me that I am bradypeptic; that "Loquax" does not intend to. référ particu. larly to the Christianity of Spain, nor in a general way to that of the Continent of Europe, but to that of New Zealand itself; and that, impossible as it may seem, there is a kind of geography in which a country may be its own antipodes. If this is the case, or if "Loquax" is one of those curious persons who survey the world acrobatically from between their own. legs, and expect other people to do the same, then it might save confusion if. for use instead of "antipodean," ‘"Loquax"’ were to coin some such word as "amphipodean." If ever I‘hear of a specific for xenomania, I will pass it on. ‘
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 738, 4 September 1953, Page 5
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207ANTIPODEAN New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 738, 4 September 1953, Page 5
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