Re: floreat...
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:16:15 +1000
> Hank Williams was twenty nine when he died. John Coltrane didn't have
> his own group until he was almost thirty five. Bob Dylan retired to
> Woodstock at twenty five. None of the Beatles had reached their thirtieth
> birthday when they disbanded. Muddy Waters wasn't discovered by Alan
Lomax
> until he was almost forty six years old. Gram Parsons was dead at twenty
> six. Woody Guthrie was finished as a performer at barely thirty years
old.
> I think what I'm trying to say is that I can find examples to support
> both sides of the age thing. My mood determines which ones I employ.
The example I always use when people tell me no one wrote anything decent
before the age of twenty is the fact that Rimbaud wrote his entire cannon
before the age of 19. He lived for many years after but never, to my
knowledge, produced any more poetry, which to me is both a shame and a
blessing, because I'm sure he must have lost his youthful anger somewhere
along the way and ended up throwing paperclips at the nearest stenographer,
so to speak.
Camille
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