Other formats

    Adobe Portable Document Format file (facsimile images)   TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 1, No. 6 April 13, 1938

Tripe?

Tripe?

Dear "Salient,"—The spectacle of a flat-footed and costive little Sancho Punca tilting at windmills with such deliberate flatulance may have been diverting for some—to me it was painful and a little tedious.

Like "Mein Kampf" re-written by Edward Gibbon.

Dr. Sutch's lecture was a concise and closely-reasoned presentation of a case. That comment upon it did not make a single attempt to face squarely the issues raised, but took the form of an Elaborate Allegory in which bogeys hid behind Capital Letters and inch-thick verbosity is bad enough.

But not for our Commentator. Nothing but a bout of cheap jesting at the fate of the Asturian miners and of the stricken women and children of Spain will satiate his scholarly mind.

Such an attitude is inexcusable but not inexplicable.

Perhaps Ezra Pound was right, after all when he said: "Gravity is a carriage of the body to conceal the defects of the mind."

The Mule.