10-06-2021, 10:36 AM
I’d never have guessed the Watt reference without the above discussion. I was thinking of James Watt but couldn’t see a steam engine anywhere!
I don’t think this reads like Dylan Thomas though, even in an imitative style. There is alliteration, but the “rolling” style of the master’s ethereal stuff (some would add: ‘and nonsense!’, not liking its inscrutability. But I love it for the sounds alone) is absent.
I don’t think this reads like Dylan Thomas though, even in an imitative style. There is alliteration, but the “rolling” style of the master’s ethereal stuff (some would add: ‘and nonsense!’, not liking its inscrutability. But I love it for the sounds alone) is absent.