Excerpt from The Arrow-Maker: A Drama in Three Acts Greater freedom from the stimulus of the imagination. What among us makes for the immensity Of emo tion, is the great weight Of accumulated emotional tradition stored up in literature and art, almost entirely wanting in the camps of the aboriginals.. There the two greatest themes Of modern drama, love and ambition, are modified, the one by the more or less communal nature Of tribal labour, the' other by the plain fact that in the simple, open-air life of the Indian the physical stress of sex is actually much less than in conditions called civilized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The greatest difficulty to be met in the writing of an Indian play is the extensive misinformation about Indians. Any real aboriginal of my acquaintance resembles his prototype in the...
The Arrow-Maker
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In The Arrow Maker, D.M. Black's sensitive attention to emotional states of mind, sometimes his own, sometimes those of others such as St. Augustine, Ezra Pound, Paul Celan or Jacques Brel, also extends to more public themes of war and ...
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