"SOMEONE'S ALWAYS DYING"
Sir,--The short stories published in The Listener have rarely been one of the paper’s brighter spots, Many of them have been drear, and it has often seemed that dull ugliness has been mistaken for the realism of genius; but for banal sordidness a new low has been reached in the story "Someone’s Always Dying," by Thomas Hindmarsh. If either author or editor can
see any literary merit in it with regard to either content or style, they are urgently in need of a brighter outlook on both life and literature. This letter has been prompted by finding that my young daughter had read this story. Children should not be exposed to such sad and sorry meanness by persons who mistake the portrayal of seamy monotony for art. Are we to need to lock The Listener away from the children? Delinquency lies not only in gangster comics; it can also breed from a twisted unhappy attitude to life.
T. E.
MILES
(Christchurch). «#
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 945, 20 September 1957, Page 11
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164"SOMEONE'S ALWAYS DYING" New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 945, 20 September 1957, Page 11
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