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Under Milk Wood

Movie? It's subtitled 'a play for voices' so it's designed for radio!
 
MR EDWARDS
I am a draper mad with love. I love you more than all the flannelette and calico, candlewick, dimity, crash and merino, tussore, cretonne, crepon, muslin, poplin, ticking and twill in the whole Cloth Hall of the world. I have come to take you away to my Emporium on the hill, where the change hums on wires. Throw away your little bedsocks and your Welsh wool knitted jacket, I will warm the sheets like an electric toaster, I will lie by your side like the Sunday roast.
MISS PRICE
I will knit you a wallet of forget-me-not blue, for the money to be comfy. I will warm your heart by the fire so that you can slip it in under your vest when the shop is closed.
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<3 <3 <3
 
Thanks for this link btw, I shall be reading and enjoying alot more of his work. Just begun today you see, never really knew the guy before.
This should be inspiring for my own prose.
 
haribo1 said:
Movie? It's subtitled 'a play for voices' so it's designed for radio!
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hence, i couldn't get through the movie. was made in the 60's i believe. Elizabeth Taylor had a small role. grossly overdone, i say.
 
Thomas has one very specific trick that produces, in the right hands (his) an amazing vista. He uses two adjectives thus:

The street was starless and bible-black

either is fine but together the impact is much greater. Listen to Under Milk wood and listen, he almost always does it.

Factoid: The town in which the play takes place is Bugger All written backwards.

If people like him, I will find some links to Brenden Behan who famously stated 'I am a drinker with a writing problem'. His play 'The Quare Fellow' is quite, quite breathtaking.
 
Thank you for the link. I know absolutely nothing about Dylan Thomas (except the obvious) so I'm glad you posted this.

And as for Llareggub Hill... heh. Smartass. :)
 
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