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Wednesday, July 28, 1971

THE REVIEW

PAGE FIVE

BY JACK SCOTT |

There’s really nothing more
difficult. or - aggravating than
writing. I guess most people who
write for a living feel like Storm
Jameson, the prolific English
novelist, who was asked by an
interviewer about her philosophy
of writing, “I don’t much like it,”
she said.

I was brooding about this the
other day when our neighbor’s
daughter, Peggy-Ann, dropped
by for an after-school visit. She is
in Grade Four. ‘‘We wrote
compositions today and I got an
‘O’,” she said.‘ ‘O’ means
oustanding. Want to read it?” I
said, yes, indeed, and she handed
me the composition and when]
read it I envied her. She can)
write.

. “Wilbur chased the sun up in to

Have You
Noticed?

BY PENINSULA RESIDENT
. JOHN SQUANCE

No doubt the many readers of
the Review took note of the fact:
that Mr. H. V. Green has retired
from his work with the paper, and
‘Iam. sure ‘many. will’ miss’ his
touch. For many years he has:
_ faithfully; reported meetings and
~ other.events - on? the.“ Saanich
‘Peninsula: and: he: has now come:
to-a-time. when he may” enjoy.

schedule. He and Mrs. “Green are

off: to ‘visit: members: of. their:

“family and friends’ in’ England;
_and: we sincerely trust that:-the:
’ ‘trip will be a. very happy. one,

In the 20 odd years that my wife
vand dT have lived in the area there’
has been impressed on me, many,
times, the continuity. of _ public

- service, which is also constantly
changing in personnel. The line in

the old) poem... ‘For men may
come and men may. go; but-I go
on forever. illustrates this, but
does’ not properly evaluate. the
legacy of the departing worker.

It.is fram.the spirit of service:

abequeathed by those who have™

done their stint, and ‘passed
along, (hat the inspiration comes:
lo strive for the betterment of the
community. Ino writing of this
there is difficulty in finding ways
to describe: that.whieh is so: in-
tangible while iit the same time
so-realand so important,
Whether it is in public serviee
arin the every dav earning. :

‘living, there are those who think

of the work as 560 many hours of
labor per. day ar week, others
think of it.as so many dollars per
“houror week, TC is the group wha
think not of hours: spent or monesy'
earned, shut of samething.

“are aninspiration (o these around

if

them, and whore legacy endures.

There is an impressive list of
Anes cin myonemary. bank ol
such people and 1 know: each
reader will think of such. Some
Who have departed, some retired
and-others sult in, aetive: work,
_ So the work of the community
foes oon cand Gibran’s. vards
deseribe the legaey of each of us
toll of us. We save, “You have
been told that even like a ehain,
youre as weak as your weakest
link, Thissis but half the truth.
You are also as strong as. your
strongest fink.’ P believe we all
aspire, in our better moments, to
be strong Hinks in the community
“choi. but perhaps forget toa
often that the faithful per
farmance of small tasks ts just as
portant. as csseutinh in fact,
as are those which are seemingly
more Emportant and impressive,

Ttasoonly he whe as baithlad i
the performance of his own task
Who will appreciate and support a
feliowman who ie endesvouring
to do a goad job.

In the great “play’ of life, we
are all netors. and whether we
have lead part ar a ininar one,
we eveh niust de the bit assigned
lous, for the play must poon The
Cuytain is how ap!

breaking tour of Vienna’s

“as “the:

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en
complished by their effort, whe

. the sky,” the composition began.
“One day something happened.
The sun did not get up. Wilbur got
wet and his friends did not.come
to play with him. He went to bed
and fell asleep. When the rain
stopped the sun came up. Wilbur
saw that the sun was up. He went
to phone his friends and you know
what? Wilbur never chased the
sun ever again. The end.”

This is “O" writing if ever I
saw it. It is beautifully simple,
yet mystic, too.

Steinbeck began “The Grapes
of Wrath” with this sentence
“Yo the red country and part of
the grey country of Oklahoma.
the last rains came gently. and
they did not: cut the: scarred
earth.”

The first. sentence in’ Thomas
Wolfe’s “You Can't: Go Home
Again’ is: “It was the hour. of
twilight. on a soft spring day
toward the end of April in. the
year of Our Lord. 1929, and
George Webber leaned his elbows
on the sill of his back window and
looked out at what he could see of
New York.”

Hemingway began his greatest
Story, ‘The Short Happy Life of
Francis Macomber,” with these
words: “‘It was now lunch time
and they were all sitting under
the double. green fly.-on the
dining tent pretending that
nothing ‘had happened.”
Peggy-Ann began her story,

the sky.”’ And:a reader could no
more stop there than he could
Stop at the beginning of. Stein-
beck, Wolfe or Hemingway.

The sentence | liked best in’ her
composition is; ‘When the rain
stopped the sun-came. up.”
Writers will spend hours trying to
fashion’ just- such a sentence
which a 10-year-old will put down

‘Wilbur chased the sun up in to.

riters And Writing

so naturally. and simply. When
the rain stopped the sun came up.
There's the picture, uncluttered
by superfluous frills.

Rain is rain, the sun is the sun
and anything else simply gets in

‘the way between the writer and

the reader.

Once, interviewing Oscar
Hammerstein 11, I asked if the
writing. of lyrics came easier to
him as the years went by. Quite
the contrary, he said, they
become more difficult. This, he
thought, was because the writer
is increasingly critical of his
work. It takes more to satisfy
him. In putting more in he runs
the risk of putting too much in:

Comes. from laziness, too. If
you read something that is full of
richly descriptive words you can
be sure that the writer is taking
the easy way through the forest.

Let's take’ the “example . of
Peggy-Ann’s story. The. lazy
writer would say. “The dark

clouds, unleashing their heavy
loads, had blown across the land
and the lashing rain. began to
subside. Soon there was only the
drip-drip-drip from the branches
of the trees and the eaves of the
old house. Then, suddenly. the
shredding cover of cloud was
broken and the golden sun came
through, bathing the landscape in
its life-giving. warmth.”’

Ifyou really worked on ‘this,
trimmed it and polished it and cut
away the fat. you arrive at this:
“When: the rain stopped the sun
came up.”

That’s the challenge of writing

and the curse of it. It requires

either purity of innocence and
natural expression or an.awful lot
of -hard labor.
what? T wouldn't trade it for any
other ‘job.

The end.

THIS

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LIPIZZAN SHOW

The 1971 edition of “The Wonderful World of Horses” featuring THE
ROYAL. LIPIZZAN STALLION. SHOW will _ appear at’ Victoria
Memorial Arena on Wed. August lat 8 p.m.
Produced by Gary and Philip Lashinsky and Don Woods, the show is
the first major spectacle of horses and riders ‘since the. record-
famous White Stallions in 1964.-It features
such internationally- acclaimed riders as: Albert Ostermaier, Friedel
Paster. Colonel E. Trevor Bale’and Charles. Skelton.
- Over- fifty: horses will be shown. including such fine dressage breeds
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:to complete. this: two-hour. spectacle: :
: One of the horses in. the: show, Conversano- Aleros; was sired by one
of the Lipizzanerc stallions: presented to General Patton for his daring
rescue of the herd during World War i, This dramatic true story was
recounted i in Walt Disney’ sfilm, ‘The Miracle of the White Stallions.”’

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WEEK IN. BRITISH
COLUMBIA 100 YEARS AGO

Adapted for the British Columbia
Centennial ’71. Committee from
newspapers of 1871, the year this
Province. joined Confederation.
WEEK OF MAY 3, 1871

Good labour was. becoming
increasingly hard to hire in the

Cariboo because of the
emigration to the Omineca
goldfields.

A notice was. posted in the
Standard concerning the levying
of taxes in Victoria.

1. Realestate: 1 3o0f 1 percent
of market value.

2. Businesses: (wholesale
trading. including banks) $20 per
annum. (Retail sales) $5.

3, 3 pees: $2 per dog.

. Horses: $2.50 per horse.
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