“It was about how men walk into a forest afraid because they know all the things that can happen. They might wake the noisy birds and cause chaos. But kids come into the trees and see the magic. They climb them and see stars that the men were too afraid to see.” LoveGovernmentRomancePoetryCollegeHigh SchoolChaosLong Distance RelationshipOrphanageWyomingNicaraguaGlass GirlLaura Anderson KurkMeg KavanaghHenry WhitmirePerfect GlassDylan ThomasBeing But Men Author:Laura Anderson Kurk
“The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He's this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at the White Horse Tavern in New York and then died on the spot from alcohol poisoning. I've always wanted to hear the bartender's side of the story. What was it like watching this guy drink himself out of here? How did it feel handing him number twenty-one and watching his face crumple up before the fall of the stool? And did he already have number twenty-two poured, waiting for this big fat tip, and then have to drink it himself after whoever came took the body away?” DeathNew YorkSadThoughtsTragedySuicideWineDrinkingAlcoholTragicAlcoholismWhiskeySuicidal ThoughtsBartenderTipsAlcohol AddictionBarDylan Thomas Book:Suicide Notes Source: Suicide Notes
“Writing of a chance early meeting with Dylan Thomas in a London bar, Kay Boyle writes (1955, in the era of McCarthyism, 1947-1956): Perhaps because he [Dylan Thomas was so often out of place among men, we take him now as symbol. Perhaps because we who write in America are in great difficulties now, we cherish Dylan Thomas as if he were our own ego, our own wild soul freed of the flesh. An American critic, writing of the American literary scene, points out that thinking Americans, in this period of our nation's development, are deeply troubled because "the demands for national security and for individual freedom" are in conflict.” FreedomWritersNational SecurityMccarthyismDylan Thomas Book:Words That Must Somehow Be Said: Selected Essays, 1927-1984 Source: Words That Must Somehow Be Said: Selected Essays, 1927-1984