JVK wrote about a talk on the book The Devil and James McAuley. Huh! How
about God and James McAuley ...
As a young man with a poetic fever I wrote a poem entitled This Body,
World. The opening line went like this: My God, a Muse jumped on me from
the Darkness.
(Well, I was 18 or so, you've got to forgive me.) Anyway, I sent it off for
publication to James McAuley, then editor of Quadrant. (I ask forgiveness
again ...) He sent me back a pompous rejection slip, saying at top: You are
a very confused young man. He went on to say you can't believe in God _and_
a Muse. Huh.
Andrew
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