[Fretful Sleepers: Introduction] - Fretful Sleepers and Other Essays

Content Partner: Victoria University of Wellington. In this article I have to steer between two dangers, each represented by previous assessments of 'the New Zealand character'. The first is to use the first person plural as in Oliver Duff's New Zealand Now. When I read it my impression was that I'd been listening to a rotarian, the two of us puffing pipes by a fire, picking our noses, having a m...