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RonPrice
Joined: 27 Oct 2004
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Location: George Town Tasmania Australia
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 Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:31 pm Post subject: What People Do With Their Lesiure: Revelatory |
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THE COLLAPSE INTO MEANING
What men and women do with their leisure in contemporary society is more apt to reveal their deeper concerns and personal preoccupations than what they do at their work; the masks of social role-playing slip away when at rest or play revealing the ludic exploratory aspect of man. -Thanks to Ronald Conway, Land of the Long Weekend, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1978, p.287. 
Read books, write and go to meetings:
that’s what I do; no gardening, no fix it
jobs; wash dishes, watch a little TV, very
little cooking, a little visiting and being
visited, very little restless banality and
superficiality, serious stuff in the main.
So what can one tell about a person who
reads fifteen books a week and writes
endless amounts of poetry like this? That
nothing is isolated, that a dynamic unity in
multiplicity is everywhere and that here is the
story of what gets through from the universal
to the cobwebs on the wall as yesterdays, nows
and the futures collapse into meaning.
Ron Price
4 October 1996 
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Ron Price is a retired teacher, aged 63. He taught for 35 years in pre-primary, primary, secondary, post-secondary and seniors schools. |
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