notoriety-hunters

Updated: May 23, 2025

Why, as soon as I saw the advanced idealist fools they're generally the middle-class, shabby-genteel families that catch Spiritualism and Theosophy and those sort of complaints, at the end of the epidemic that catch on at the tail-end of things and think they've caught something brand, shining, new; as soon as I saw them, and the problem spielers and notoriety-hunters of both sexes, beginning to hang round Australian Unionism, I knew it was doomed.

Henry Lawson - Over the Sliprails