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James K. Baxter Complete Prose Volume 1

Disgruntled Foghorn

Disgruntled Foghorn

Sir: Is Mr Thornton a foghorn? If not, how is he able to ‘send forth blasts across Cook Strait’? I have never, to my knowledge, met Mr Thornton. His special knowledge of my background and that of others belonging to an imaginary Wellington ‘coterie’ is most surprising. One earns a living as best one can; one writes when, how, and as well as one can. A disappointed and disgruntled journalist playing possum in Fiji should have no reason to feel superior to any man or woman trying to write well in New Zealand.

Good luck to Mr Thornton in his kava saloon. For the length of his letter he says very little. If he had ever written one line of readable verse or prose, I would listen to his views with more respect and interest.

1957 (154)