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Commentary

Commentary

Commentary by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
February 2003, no. 248

The Underside of the fish is just as tasty as its upper flanks. Life is also like that. And leadership is not just a matter of will, power and grandeur not just like A.D Hope’s image of such power when he writes in ‘Pyramis’:

I think of how the work was hurried on:
Those terrible souls. the Pharaohs. those great Kings
Taking. like genius, their prerogative
Of blood, mind, Treasure

 


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