Tag Archives: Dylan Thomas

2007 Year in Pictures: “Eighteen whiskeys…”

The White Horse Tavern, Greenwich Village, NY. Where Dylan Thomas apparently spoke his last words: “I’ve just had 18 whiskeys. I think that’s the record.”

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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.

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Famous Last Words

John Adams – died July 4, 1826: “Thomas Jefferson–still survives…” (or perhaps … “Thomas Jefferson … lives…” There are enough eyewitness accounts to believe that he said something along those lines.) On the exact same day, Thomas Jefferson died. He … Continue reading

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Commonplace

After the first death, there is no other. — Dylan Thomas

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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

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Bells

I mean that the bells the children could hear were inside of them. — Dylan Thomas, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”

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Famous Epitaphs/Last Words

Famous Epitaphs A reader sent me a bit of trivia she thought I might be interested in (she was right!) John Keats, great poet, who died in 1821, wrote his own epitaph, which is as follows: “Here lies one whose … Continue reading

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