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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 37, No. 10. May 22, 1974

Poetry lover sick of politics - typical!

Poetry lover sick of politics - typical!

Dear Roger,

Man being hit in the face by a boxing glove on a spring

I'm getting very sick of politics. Being inundat-ed with the need for solidarity with the working classes/the oppressed Maoris-Polynesians-South African blacks/Ugandan Asians etc/the most recent recent crimes of the middle-class capitalist bourgeois society etc etc etc. My heart is breaking under the strain of carrying the burdens of responsibility toward the Ideal society:

Ah for some light relief, a breath of optimism! Something to read that will delight the soul not oppress it! Occasionally a ray of inspirational sunlight peeps through the pages of Salient — but all too rarely, I crave more.

Surely with 6000 on campus there must be some writers of prose or poetry who could contribute to the cause of raising my morale with gems of wisdom, pearls of profundity, sparkles of Auatenian wit....Why have they not appeared in Salient? Please let us poor wearied hungry souls see somthing of these mute inglorious Miltons...

Love from Prometheus