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Rock ‘n’ Roll Heroes by Peter Skrzynecki

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September 1992, no. 144

Rock ‘n’ Roll Heroes by Peter Skrzynecki

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Heroes by Peter Skrzynecki

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September 1992, no. 144

For its double epigraph, Rock’n’Roll Heroes combines a couple of lines of Midnight Oil’s Hercules – ‘my life is a valuable thing / I want to keep it that way’ – with six wonderfully numinous sentences from Thomas Traherne:

The dust and the stones of the street were as precious as gold, the gates were at first the ends of the world. The green trees when I saw them first, through one of the gates, transported and ravished me ... Boys and girls tumbling in the streets, and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born or should die. But all things abided eternally as they were in their proper places. Eternity was manifest in the light of day ...

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