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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol 1, No. 1. March 9, 1938

D'Annunzio-Itis

D'Annunzio-Itis

What a pity! Really It would have been far more romantic If doddering old Gabriel was killed in a chariot race or had arranged to fall from a flag-pole. Anything to keep up the sorry sham.

The famous [unclear: and] described him as that refined [unclear: little] who listens with his eyes and thinks with his ears." (c.f. "Evening Post" obit, notice.) He was an idealist, naturalist, a Neitzschian a symbolist and a mystic in turns. But throughout these mutations he remained a patriot and eventually developed into a jingoist and a fascist, who found in Mussolini a Redeemer and in his lop-sided self a hope for the world.

No wonder he died of cerebral hæmorrhage.

Advice to Old Maids:

Be good sweet maids and let who will be clever.

Advice to young. maids:

Be good, sweet maids, and let who will. Be clever.

Positively: Means being mistaken at the top of one's voice.

A copy-writer is a lost literary soul writing in eternal torment because magazines have to be paid to print his stuff.