Patrick White: Riders in the Chariot What a wonderful world Patrick White takes us into in this remaking of the Australian social landscape in line with his own prophetic ambition to re-sacralize a spiritually desolate land. As he says in his essay “The Prodigal Son”: Because the void I had to fill was so immense, I…
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Patrick White- Australia’s only Literature Nobel Laureate.
Please see the end of this Blog for audios “In all directions stretched the Great Australia Emptiness, in which the mind is the least of possessions, in which the rich man is the important man… in which beautiful youths and girls stare at life through blind blue eyes… the buttocks of cars grow hourly glassier,…
Patrick White: Riders in the Chariot
What a wonderful world Patrick White takes us into in this remaking of the Australian social landscape in line with his own prophetic ambition to re-sacralize a spiritually desolate land. As he says in his essay “The Prodigal Son”: Because the void I had to fill was so immense, I wanted to try to suggest…
Patrick White and William Blake
Patrick White’s Riders in the Chariot begins with a quote from Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Blake quotes the prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel in their roles as prophets decrying the materialism of the world in which they live and demonstrating how it is possible to discover the infinite in everything. Theirs is a cry of lamentation…
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