Dying of Strangeness
The failure of ritual in the Coronation of Charles III
Men must have heroes or they will die of strangeness
—Les Murray
Nick Cave explained accepting an invitation to the Coronation of Charles III on the grounds that, “I am not a monarchist, nor am I a royalist, nor am I an ardent republican for that matter; what I am also not is so spectacularly incurious about the world and the way it works, so ideologicall…
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