![]() I was expecting Alistair to be the funny guy at first but I didn’t find his jokes all that good. He’s like Worf in that they both have a very dry sense of humor (you have to press him a bit). In this thinly-peopled continent the makers of verse are numerous, and though Daley never appealed to so large an audience as the ballad writers, he was the writer best beloved of the writing clan.You didn’t like Sten? He’s hilarious. For twenty years or more he charmed a large number of readers. When the pressure of hard realities brought sorrow into his life he wrote more gaily and vigorously than ever. ![]() ![]() So he wrote verses charged with the melancholy regret of the Celt for vanished glories and the beauty of remote things, dainty opalescent lyrics with hints of fairy music, witty and ironic verse on passing events, and, occasionally, prose sketches. Worldly success never tempted him, for he was a Bohemian by birth but he was also descendant of a bardic sept, and he wanted to be a poet. A good companion, " a fellow of infinite jest," life to him was a gallant spectacle, which he loved to look at and did not take seriously. The sunshine and freedom of Australia delighted him, and, in careless, vagabond fashion he enjoyed the fleeting pleasures of the day with little thought of the morrow. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry his pocket was nearly empty. Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia.
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