Word: shepherd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Akenfield, plodding, unsentimen-talized detail accumulates, suddenly evoking the devotion of a lifetime's hard work. A shepherd loses himself in telling exactly how he trains a sheep dog ("Once you have taught him stillness, you're getting somewhere"). An orchard foreman navigates his way through the niceties of pruning apple trees. A wheelwright remembers how he used to build wagons ("For making the hubs we always chose wych-elm") and paint them ("The blue rode well in the corn"). The village veterinarian, a sensitive man, contemplates the tortuous ethics of "factory farms," where pigs and chickens...
They of course are part of the very pivot of the play, coming as they do immediately after the Shepherd's incandescent words...
...blackness behind Antigonus, pick him bodily up, and carry him off, the final action drowned in a scream of loud and hopeless terror, amplified, so that it reverberated in the ear drums. The whole thing was terrifying and convincing, as it should be. The switch, then, to the Shepherd and his son the Clown, was entirely in keeping with the Shepherd's words...
...intuitions of poets and primitives, it is likely to become an arrogant distortion of its own truth. Practicing the sensibility he preaches, Eiseley begins each chapter under the guise of an old-fashioned personal essayist. Almost casually, he recalls a walk on the beach, the odd behavior of his shepherd dog one stormy winter night, a dig among American rhinoceros bones...
...described people the way we see them-all ages and sorts-and our eyes trust his images. Often unable to articulate his feeling in a line, he immersed a scene in a shadow. Some of the prints, like "The Adoration of the Shepherds: A Night Piece," are almost completely black. A box-like lamp, held by a shepherd sends light shimmering through the mesh of lines on the surface of the paper. Only the faces glow from the mysterious night in the stable. The artist expressed the wonder of the people present by unifying them in darkness...