Good lines: written on a postcard

     "The pooled ponded rosed goldfished arboured lizarded swinghung towelled winetabled Aeronshrill garden leads into our own (dear God) olives and vines climbing to a mutes' conventicle, Niobe's eisteddfod, of cypresses."

Dylan Thomas writing to a friend from an Italian villa.

Quoted by Aeronwy Thomas in My Father's Places.

Comments

[Lindsay]

Drunk as normal, I suppose?

[Cornflower]

The 'sober' version, which he sent to his parents, went like this:
"It's on the hills above Florence, some five miles away or more from the centre, from the great Cathderal dome which we can see from the sunbathing terrace above our swimming-pool. It's a very big villa, with huge rooms and lovely grounds, arbours, terraces, pools; we have a pinewood and a vineyard of our own."
I know which I prefer!

[Dark Puss]

This quote doesn't read well at all, however I think it probably sounds wonderful when read out loud appropriately. The version he sent to his parents is as dull as I would have managed!

[Cornflower]

Yes, think how it would sound if read by Richard Burton!

[Dark Puss]

Indeed, did you know I have swum in one of Burton's (former) swimming pools?

[Cornflower]

Ooh, there's fancy!