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A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

Anita Mathias — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:23:00 +0000

Here’s one of my favourite pieces of prose.A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALESby Dylan ThomasOne Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed […]

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Lovely prose–Patricia Hampl on the lure of Catholicism. Virgin Time

Anita Mathias — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:46:00 +0000

And hadn’t everybody else escaped? Was I the only diehard left, like one of those aged and confused Japanese soldiers who periodically emerge from some island jungle, bristling with loyalty everyone supposes is for the divine emperor but which might more truly be passion for the war itself. Let it go, the battle is […]

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