COMING ROUND THE BEND
with
Denis
Glover
\WHY wash your hands of somebody, then end up by wiping them on him? NE tries to hold one’s own in life; but surely, in the hereafter, one must be more fearful of not measuring up to the resplendent dead, OME evils in life at first appear as harmless as a white butterfly on the fruit-stall of fate. EOPLE say "I could have bitten my tongue off" when they mean they have satisfactorily bitten a head off. His healthy boast was that two years ago he wouldn't have given himself another hundred to live. AT 4.0 a.m. there was a staccato noise "on the pavement outside. "Well," said someone, "it’s either a woman pulling a milk-cart or a horse in high-heeled shoes."
"T2ROCKS may be labelled recherché when they're really rechauffé," writes a Napier fan. Among women it could be an acute point. (There would be no Coming Round the Bends if it were not for my friends.) ECAUSE it is hazy And I am lazy, My ambition Will never reach fruition. -DUCATIONISTS! We send them ~ overseas to improve themselves and they come back and play marbles in the playground no better than when they left. M3 ME? I'm too busy to read. I spend 1 : : most of my time after labour-saving devices." OW is it or is it not a manly thing to shave with an electric razor while lying in bed? Perhaps he was lyingperhaps a good story should lie in the telling.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 794, 8 October 1954, Page 14
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252COMING ROUND THE BEND New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 794, 8 October 1954, Page 14
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