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Lovely!<br>
Jean<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/15/2012 10:01 AM, Mary Ellen Foley
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cite="mid:CAKwoMEEvedq_z-0pdDwTL+W3Ay5g+g9AqWR=Eg7=y7JRHGLJow@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Which brings to mind Dylan Thomas' remarks before a
reading at Brandeis in the Spring of 1950, which ended with this
explanation of why he hoped no one would ask questions:<br>
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"I'd like to be able to answer anybody's question fluently, but
always as soon as I try to start, as soon as gauchely and
inarticulately I bog, bury, and bitch myself in a sentence which
can never, I know, come to an end, such as the sentence I am now
bogged in, I find myself thinking of certain other subjects, all
almost as interesting as the subject supposedly under discussion.
You know the sort of subject that comes into one's head when one's
asked these odd questions, subjects such as: 'Rilke and the Gold
Standard,' or 'Charles Morgan, My Favourite Character in Fiction,'
or even the very awful thing that occurs to one occasionally, 'If
a Hermaphrodite Were a Schizophrene, Which Half Would You Take?"
or even such esoteric subjects as <b>'The Influence of W. C.
Fields on Virginia Woolf.' </b>Perhaps I'd better read a
poem. I can go on talking like this all the time: that's what I
do..."<br>
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and apparently, with that, he began to read.<br>
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Mary Ellen (postscript: for my blog post on a recent visit to the
Boathouse at Laugharne, at which Dylan Thomas lived, please see <a
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<div class="gmail_quote">M.E.Foley<br>
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