Coming Round the Bend

New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 790, 10 September 1954, Page 15

Coming Round the Bend

With

DENIS

GLOVER

‘A MAN is more than life-size when he can look back at his own straight furrow. But he is somehow insignificant when he looks up at his own six-storey building. OO many writers are consumed by ‘" their own immortality before they are dead. ONE difference between pictures and books is that pictures can be misunderstood at a glance, but books have to be read right through. \WHY railways find it so difficult to pay is because they often give us hours of extra travelling time without extra charge. NCE fashion took its cue from events -magenta was named for a battle and Wellington boots for a man. Now fashion dictates to events-everything has to be given a "new look." AM credibly informed that a consolation race is not one in which the punters run and the horses back them. T’S ironical that the people who can afford to go fishing are the only ones who can afford to buy fish. "\JEEDLESS to say .. ." "To cut a long story short. . ." Blood-chilling phrases. The speaker has chopped off the head of the monster.but the tale wags on. GOOD book is the best spice to a. meal. | UBURBAN opinion seems _ pretty evenly divided as to whether trees should be trimmed to save overhead wires, or wires re-strung to save the. trees. OO many country homesteads of the ‘" prosperous modern kind look as if they are waiting for a rash of similar houses to spring up alongside them, and a smart block of smarm-shops, to help them outface the surrounding threatening hills. . WE all know people with so much self-control that they can indulge in the luxury of losing it. N ANY friends swoop ‘in like flying saucers; but it’s embarrassing when too many come to tea without bringing their own cups. SURELY appreciation of the arts is a matter of time and place: how difficult it is to listen to Stravinsky with a stomach-ache. MAN who finally finds his home in the country has obviously been hidden away in the world too long. R has "o datge on a railway carriage window: Non Smoking Schoolgirls. Shades of St. Trinian’s! HE dear woman was groping for the name of a fish. No, it wasn’t mullet, it wasn’t mackerel-it was mulligatawny. ARCHITECTURE was once concerned with practical beauty: now it’s a house (the architect wouldn’t live in himself. Il SOMETIMES wonder how many sponsors listen to their own programmes.