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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2, No. 3 March 22, 1939

Portrait of a Prodigy

Portrait of a Prodigy

"'If we want to keep reasonably sane nowadays we have to play the fashionable game of escapology—escaping front serious thinking and deep questions by cluttering up our lives with all sorts of trivial little things.

"I know I do ... frivolling away an hour here and an hour there and saying at the end of the day—Well, that's another day gone and nothing very terrible has happened. War hasn't broken out, I haven't caught measles or pneumonia, I haven't gone bankrupt, nor has my neighbour murdered his wife.'"

—Trevor Lane, in the "Radio Record," March 10, 1939.