Jack Lindsay

Jack Lindsay (20 October 1900 – 8 March 1990) was an Australian-born writer, who from 1926 lived in the United Kingdom. He was the eldest son of Norman Lindsay and brother of Philip Lindsay.

Quotes

• We would bring the Goddess to Poetry, Music and Art. Here is the eternal search of spiritual youth, and if we can sing a few songs fragrant with this desire we shall have proved our youth and freedom as no chants about bullocks and droughts can prove it. That febrile disintegration of mind called Primitivism must disappear before the first laughter of the gods. In Gaiety and Beauty the gods de-scend to earth, and those who build that bridge have done more for their countrymen than any ballad monger or realist can do.
  • Article in the University of Sydney journal Vision, no. 1 (May 1923). Quoted in Manning Clark, A Short History of Australia (1963), ch. 11, p. 215

• Only by discarding a diet based on rotting corpses could men become sane. The fantasy of needing a blood-diet, a corpse-diet, was inseparable from the distorted relation to the parents I had been trying to clarify in myself and which one way or another existed in everyone. The corpse-eater was still in fantasy feeding on the parents. We discussed these ideas and decided to eat no more meat, no more animal products of any kind (such as milk, cheese, eggs) and to discard mineral salt. Apart from a few extreme applications of our position, when I tried to eat such nauseous things as raw potatoes, we found that we felt very much better in health.
  • Fanfrolico and After (London: Bodley Head, 1962), pp. 217-218