MATTERS OF MOMENT
Sir-The Listener has laid on some first-rate entertainment in publishing the despatches of the puckish bard of the South and the mellowing Mencken of Takapuna. Questions of moment, hitherto seen dimly by the public, are searingly illuminated in the thrust and parry of relentless linguistic lucidity. Exchanges of this kind raise another point, too. What is to become of the mass of uncared-for correspondence that has doubtless passed between the literary men of this nation? Are carbon copies kept? Have our scholars, repositories and archive officers got their weather eyes open? Are the pulsations and throbs of a growing body of literature to be crushed heedlessly beneath the feet of footballers and marching girls? Perhaps much masterful writing lies even now in the drawers of a bash-. ful literati. Plugging in on a_ landline . between these two is an experience I enjoy. More please, Mr. Editor.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 808, 21 January 1955, Page 5
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151MATTERS OF MOMENT New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 808, 21 January 1955, Page 5
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