Up and Down the Stream
AN a horse laugh?" I begin to think not, having listened to the 3YA series Midstream Horses, whose patient nags never questioned the reminiscences of their riders. Far be it from me to disparage country ways, the calm, the homely wisdom which Mr. Oliver Duff sheds over his "retirement" to a small farm after an important and vigorous
life in the metropolis. But is this really a "midstream" horse? I enjoyed Mr. Gerald Cox’s tour de force contrasting the freedom to write in the country after the drudgery of library work, despite the fact that I knew that before Christmas, 1953, Mr. Cox was still very much in the city. From what solid basis of experience, then, did he extol the virtues of country life? With Mr. Hollis, who has moved from journalism to factory work, where "real’’ men live out their Hemingway existence, I cannot but feel from a much longer experience, in just such a life, that Mr. Hollis has barely begun to scratch the surface of this new and exciting world. Many of the arty-crafty people he deplores are not so insincere, nor working men so guileless, as at first may seem to be the
case.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 774, 21 May 1954, Page 12
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205Up and Down the Stream New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 774, 21 May 1954, Page 12
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