The Distant Scene
OMETIMES a mere log entry on a ship sets the imagination free to recreate the events of a distant day more than would a ream of detailed description. In much, the same way the laconic understatements of Brenda Bell talking of "Sheep, Snow and Stations," over 4YA bring the ’70s and ’80s vividly alive. How much a session like this, full of dates, place names and prices fetched for hoggets or rabbit. skins, might convey to an overseas listener. I could not say. Even for myself I did not listen to what the sessions told about different stations and towns, but experienced an evocation of the past in which I saw the ‘bullocks lie down in the fence-high blue grass, or the frosted hair of the woman who thought she’d gone white over night. It has been a kind of pageant in which I have never been able to focus on any thread of narrative, but in which I have stood on a detached eminence surveying the vigorous hill-life of the early colony while a person standing beside’ me has, in decidedly racy language, almost. amusedly, reported upon a scene I could not otherwise have understood. (continued on next page) rs i
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 788, 27 August 1954, Page 10
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