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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 8 (November 1, 1934)

Mental Meanderings

Mental Meanderings.

The pipes of Pan are drain pipes. They drain our powers of concentration and determination. They fill us with strange visions of countries far and fair and deflect us from pounds shillings and pants, from percentages and dementages, from trade and tirade. from earnestness and earnings and suchlike perquisites of progress which make people grate. We long to see the world and all its works. The mind wanders from figures to Fiume, from prices to Provence, from ledgers to London. We build a lambent London with the mental mortar of imagination. We are Macaulay's New Zealander reconstructing a new London from the ruins of our early education.