on 27/10/05 10:11 PM, Jill Jones at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> And poetry readings - there was a bloke who'd
> jump on somewhere between, from memory, La-Motte Picquet Grenelle and
> Odeon and declaim poems about the situation in the Sudan and encourage
> passengers to buy sheets of his work. A few did. Can't see it working
> in Sydney. Our trains are less intimate, for a start. Though we do get
> the odd musician strumming away.
Early 20th c Sydney famously had the Shakespeare reciter on the streets and
public transport Beatrice ('Bee') Miles, 1902-73, who became novelised by
Kate Grenville, so to speak as Lilian in Lilian's Story (1985, revised
1991), and filmed 1996.
Max in Melbourne
(ambivalent about his fate: seldom on public transport since coming to
Australia aged 30)
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