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Tag Archives: Wales
Dylan Thomas, Gilgamesh, and Auden
Mental Multivitamin muses on all three – one leads to the other leads to the other. I love her, don’t you? You are, indeed, a force with which to be reckoned.
Libraries of the World: Heart-achey Beauty
This is for my father, and for all library-lovers everywhere. Theology Room at St. Deiniol’s library, North Wales Herzog August Bibliothek, Germany Austrian National Library (the Prunksaal) Strahov Monastery – the 1st library, Prague, Czechoslovakia Another one of Strahov Monastery … Continue reading
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Tagged Austria, bookshelves, Czechoslovakia, England, Germany, Ireland, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Wales
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Commonplace
After the first death, there is no other. — Dylan Thomas
Salinger’s Maze of Parentheticals
Emily talks about some of the early stories of Dylan Thomas. The stories are experimental, not all that successful apparently, but interesting nonetheless because of what it reveals about the author and his work. Reminds me a bit of reading … Continue reading
Bells
I mean that the bells the children could hear were inside of them. — Dylan Thomas, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”