Pieter-Dirk Uys: The Echo of a Noise

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Pieter-Dirk Uys. Pieter-Dirk Uys: The Echo of a Noise

In the foyer

Finding the right light

Gathering wet sand

Send out the clown

Introducing the players

The scene is nearly set

The echo of a noise: The stage version

Exit music over titles

Light at the end of a curved tunnel

Dedication to another old pal

He who laughs last

Acknowledgements and thanks

In the box under my bed

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The echo of a noise

A memoir of then and now

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Pa’s father was an engineer in Paarl during the First World War, probably one of the first of his kind, a Steve Jobs of the Boland. He had a motorbike and would put his little son on the back seat and they would drive off on the gravel roads to the various farms in the district so that Tielman Uys could fix the dorsmasjiene.

The Uys family also owned what Pa proudly called the first motor car in Paarl, a Maxwell. They lived next to the Toringkerk, the Dutch Reformed Church where Pa started playing the organ at the age of twelve. He soon became the official organist, but his teenage legs couldn’t reach the pedals. So his youngest sister, Anna, would be down there pressing the correct ones at the right time with both hands.

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