"My intention for this occasion is to consider one or two aspects of the writer's problem of how to discipline, or how to order the chaos of his experience, for the imaginative purposes of his prose." said Maurice Duggan, the Burns Fellow 1960, in his address. "Talking of Writing." to the Otago Literary Society recently.

"Two or three examples will suffice to represent experience, in the one case literary, or passing for that; and in the other, direct and nonliterary. The question will be, for me, to question this experience for my writing. They are moments, or memories, possessed of some vibration, for me. They are moments when one felt one's powers of perception to be full.

The Chorus line hard at work. Follow the man in front and you can't go wrong.

(From an Extrav rehearsal.)