Great story, Joanna. Loved it.
Doug
On 9-Jun-07, at 10:28 AM, Joanna Boulter wrote:
> My mother grew up in Swansea as a virtual contemporary of Thomas's,
> and of course had his Collected Poems which she used to read to me.
> Like Douglas, I too in time found his rhetoric an over-rich diet. But
> I shall never forget the time my mother and her sister went to see a
> theatrical performance of Under Milk Wood in a London theatre. They
> came back reeling, saying -- "That man must have overheard every word
> we ever said." All the dialogue, all the use of "I" whoever it
> represents, was utterly true to the speech she heard around her, and
> used, growing up.
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