COMING ROUND THE BEND
with
Denis
Glover
ANY a hero of the wars submits rather too meekly to minor government officials. O put up with friends is sometimes a nice exercise in tact: to put up with friends’ friends, one in restraint. EWS may not always be red hot; but we can be thankful that news print is combustible. NLY unpractical idiots condone the follies of others, and condemn their own. N some parts of New Zealand things just grow, but in Wellington they are always trying to build them. "YOUNG woman, your sables can't cover your soul. You are only a smoke concert soprano," —
quer frequently die: they are almost never hanged. HEY once told me, Never talk to anybody. But I still find it desirable to talk to everybody. OT many people are creative, but walking along Lambton Quay ‘convinces me that Wellington is full of pavement artists. NONE but the rich deserve the fair, [N an Australian lecture syllabus of 1880 I saw the subject, "Is Life Worth Living?" It was allotted one and a half hours. OME people find their feet early in life only to lose them later.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 26
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193COMING ROUND THE BEND New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 26
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