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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 8. 1969.

More Pretty [letter to the editor, from P. F. O'Dea]

After reading your correspondent (sic), Mr (sic) Pretty's (sick) ramblings on Wagner and culture, I was struck by the resemblance between his arguments and the demented ravings of another compatriot or Wagner's who was fortunately buried, as far as the world is concerned, under tons of rubble at the end of World War II. To quote Mr Pretty himself, "Those who don't like Wagner should be made to like him". Surely here is as good a reason as any why Mr Pretty should be certified. He, unfortunately, like so many other, has little to say, but he makes the loudest possible noise making it.

Take, for example, his statement that the author of a letter to which he is replying "descended to the level of personal insult". Then he very querly asserts that the author of this letter Is a "nincompoop", an "oaf" and a "nit". Perhaps from Mr Pretty's supposedly elevated nation in life as an arbiter of other people's taste these are not personal insults.

P. F. O'Dea.