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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1952.
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
YOU HAD
BEEN SWIMMING IN A LONELY BAY AND AS YOU CAME OUT OF THE
WATER YOU WERE MET
BY AN UGLY OLD CRIPPLED WOMAN WHO WAS LAUGHING
HORRIBLY
THEN SHE ATTACKED AND OVERPOWERED YOU AND DRAGGED YOU INTO AN OLD DARK HOUSE ON THE BEACH: SHE TIED YOU TO A TABLE AND PUT A LARGE KNIPE ACROSS YOUR ANKLE. "I'LL CRIPPLE YOU FOR
LIFE LIKE MYSELF" SHE SCREAMED
→THIS DREAM MEANS:
To swim in a lonely bay is to Ure your own emotional Xife apart from others.
An older woman-not capable of enjoying life tabe la crippled and cannot swim) "envies your happines and is determined deprive you of it and make you like herself (... crigaste you. That--at any rate-ls how you feel about har Who she is, I leave you to decide: It is obvious she has tried to make you unhappy.
It is amazing how love-starved, envions people will melt if you are prepared to share a little of your pleasure and loy with them. Whereas abowing resentment-which you may have every right to feel-only perpetuaten the sicious circle,
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Wet pavements add sparkle to outdoor night scenes.
PICTURING THE CITY AT NIGHT
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SPEAK MEMORY. By Vladimír Nabokov Gol- lanez. 169. 237 pages.
XTRACT from there remii- nissenets of Nabokov's boy- hood in Tsarist Russia and his youth as an emigre in Europe:
CHILDREN OF THE of a mi idle-class actor struggling
ARCHBISHOP. By Nor with man Collins. Collins. 15s. 512 pages. WHO'S afraid of the Big Bad Book? Not Mr Norman Collins, a brisk and capable story-teller who can prolong the life of a novel beyond its natural term without obvious use of the oxygen-tent.
Children of the Archbishop
theme hus а
as simple
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younger produced in Exile be turned nut to be the
because the daylight the intensity of the lights; with now somewhat an average lens opening of about shorte, doesn't
mean that
11. the exposure may run any- hours of superhouding must be where from a few seconds to a www.pl In it, the long dark full minute. If you have a very brand-new fast lens, around 1/35 or better, 4 wp Avanag reaito
tasemnating of
picture and use fast "pan" lm, you can taking The city takes on a new sometimes take snapshot, around Hook Ahrn the lights come the more brilliantly lighted store
turns out to be the illegitimate sky of exile. Sirin passed like a Hase sparking lights windows and theatre marquers grand-daughter of the imposing meteor and disappeared, leaving can make some most interesting
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Always use a tripod or set the camera On something solid for fime exposures and napshot ex- Thurs skylines of the 13.ge:
than 1/25 of a posures lower vities are most attractive when second the lights come on in early even-
If
you are bothered by Ing. The Dught Freun tar Hica te nd shopping dis- lights of pussing cars while you Enter their Bashing are making your time exposure. cd only to shield your messages on your Gln. ton. The you headlights
hoving les through a busy intersection can thet mavenants in artistic Howing patie: nr.
Frets can
lights and are street There light store windows and busy These intersections to recor.l. lights will take on even more parkiet you photograph them
wet when the witer a rain. strerts reflect the lights ove: aut over again
until they pass and then cont.sue the exposure. Avoid string lights in the foregroun if you are interested in recording ma: distant objects. Moreover, remember to compose your ple- ture just as well as you would any daylight shot.
indy who is chairman of the or- phanage governors.
only major one with his unusual style. brillant recision, fune- tional imagery Across the dark
a vagur sense of unea:inets."
Extract from blurb for Nabo-
R. L2 hov's novel, The There are side issues, e.g an Sebastian Knight, published 1945 ambitious new warden comes to (Poetry London) the
determined to o: phanage sweep clean with broom and bitch. The organist at the or
unfrocked clergy- phanage, an tan, becomes a writer of Rong-
hits.
Even
sn, the tale could well have been told in about half the space. But those who make this complaint nature of Mr Coline's talent. He
misunderstandi
The
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Ornament (4)
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Vestige (5).
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12 Beams (4).
Dr Jekyll
presume!
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Pierced (7).
13 Splendour (4).
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Ceremony (4).
10
Uninteresting (4).
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Threaten (6).
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Wards off (6).
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Assisting (8).
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Chantom (5),
24 Itinerary (5).
25 Relleves (5).
19 Lethal (5).
RETURN TO PARADISE. 17 Make reparation (5).
By James A. Michener. Secker and Warburg, 21s. 22 Above ali (7) 437 pages.
DOAMING about the
28 Conceal (4)
27
Wan (4),
South 28 Greels curemonicusly (7).
Riis car close to 29 Bar (4)
the atoll, Mr Michener (whose 30 Tidy (4).
is a stayer. When he strides into travels had already supplied the
If you have neve taken out-the stadium at the end of the plat for the show South Pacific), 31 So this 32 Cuor pictures at night, try a few marathon, fresh, confident, his found the materials
mixed bag of readable test shots to guide you in tak-eye on the stop-watch, his publie mast
alses the cheer of those whu essays and stories, Mr Michiner's ing future pictures. Pictured of
have got what they expected own chtidlike wonder over the the city jights are fascinatitig
obstinute preference of Australia and New Zealand for the Brilishi Any camera that is capable of and add a new touch to snapshot They are with him to the tape.
One point. In representing the rather than the Americans is not talk of tower - income group the cast entertaining feature of characters, Collins reminds me the book
uple time exposure loutionr night scenes,
ean take albums.
The ex-
postare will vary, of course, with
John van Guilder.
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