Coming Round the Bend...
WITH
DENIS
GLOVER
,EASIDE cottages are now getting so civilised that holiday-makers are only moving from one washing machine to another, N a thousand or less years the College of Technics will teach music as the only subject among the arts. Language will remain a special subject, for politicians only, in order to develop further masterpieces in glorious imprecision. ND following an extension of the industrial idea of not letting workers walk about, because it consumes valuable productive time and energy, it may be that workers will only be allowed to atrive on foot under a severe penalty. se SOME industrialists will never be happy till all the llamas in Peru are wearing wrist watches, BUT enough. The Irish are essentially a creative people, even if they create nothing but trouble. ‘THE country i$ a good place to go to when ships are laid up, presuming (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) of course, that you prefer the teredo to the earthworm, "ET even from the country it is a ‘good thing to get back to town, if only to avoid the noise of tractors. OST of us have been in houses equipped with every vulgarity that money can buy. In the wrong company the long-playing record of the wrong kind takes you to the end of a dull evening at half speed. [LISTENING to bad music is like waiting for a firework. The suspense is there, lest the one goes on and the other doesn’t go off. ¥ A NOVEL should be either a good novel or a bad novel," he informed me. I thought sadly of the so many in between. |F beautiful women rarely have brains, odd looking ones sometimes have too many. A good plain woman is best, and she quite understands when you want to go fishing. HE first requirgment of conversational good manners is to be able to go on talking with someone about something mutually uncongenial. ‘THINKING of those who could recite ‘" the whole of Homer, or the Koran, or Maori genealogies back to the migration, I am not so astounded by the ordinary New Zealander who can remember the family history of every racehorse from the invention of the tote. t
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 764, 12 March 1954, Page 14
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374Coming Round the Bend... New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 764, 12 March 1954, Page 14
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