[ilds] "the BBC bohemia"

[Charles Sligh]

Denise Tart & David Green wrote:
> Good post Charles. I imagine Dylan Thomas visited all those pubs and more.
>
> Have been teaching Dylan Thomas to my Year 11s and, apart from the fact that 
> they love his poetry (even if they dont always get it), I have plugged LD 
> too. In the the context of oxymorons I wrote up "the moon's cool fevers 
> burn" from Bitter Lemons and connected it to Wintry Fever from the Force 
> That... well, we had quite a discussion from there and now a new generation 
> of young Aussies have heard of Lawrence Durrell - and not the Durrell who 
> wrote My Family etc.
>
> cheers Charles and please tell me if the Battle of Chattanooga battle field 
> is visible from your office window - although I am worried - maybe you are a 
> Confederate in the Attic?????
>
>   
I am glad that you enjoyed the piece, David.

Your note about pub-life helped me to recall the great 
meeting-that-was-not, when Nancy and Larry Durrell tried to host a 
gathering for Henry Miller and Dylan Thomas--cf. MacNiven 206+.

As for the rest, certain things I cannot deny--My office faces upon a 
Civil War cemetery, our house is on the back side of Missionary Ridge, 
and we live 20 minutes north of Chickamauga.

C&c.

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Charles L. Sligh
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
charles-sligh at utc.edu
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