A Case for the Artist: A A Milne
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Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
Australian British (General)Transcript
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probably we artists have all been a little modest about ourselves lately. During the war, we asked ourselves gloomily what use we were to the state compared with the noble digger of coals, the much to be referenced maker of boots on the godlike grower of wheat. Looking at the pictures in the illustrated papers of brawny, half dressed men pushing about blocks of red hot iron, we have told ourselves that these heroes were the pillars of society and that we were just on incidental decoration. It was a wonder that we were allowed to live. And now, in these days of strikes, when a single union of manual workers can hold up the rest of the nation, it is a bitter reflection to us that were we to strike, the country would go on its way quite happily, and 9/10 of the population would not even know that we had town down pins and brushes