love this scene in the Proposition, movie from the pen of Nick - TopicsExpress



          

love this scene in the Proposition, movie from the pen of Nick Cave! showing the love of literature and poetry amongst the hardest of the hardest in society that existed once, think Ned Kelly such is life quote .. poets and writers were like rock stars for a very long period .. a national obsession with the written word existed widely .. a stoic romantic fatalism, perhaps that was needed in a world were you could die from a rusty nail, and women died in childbirth routinely .. now sometimes possible seen as some effete (gay in todays parlance) except for blokey working class prose? many a hard nut bushie could recite from memory a selection of their favourites .. thinking of my own relatives here .. what happened? only the future holds any hope of good things? , bollocks to modern psycho babble
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 23:28:18 +0000

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