"An alcoholic is someone you do not like who drinks as much as you do" (Dylan Thomas) not only in the collective or fictionalized biography that Dylan Thomas wanders from pub to another, from lover to another, often drunk and without a penny in his pocket. He led a dissolute life, in debt, so that often did not even have enough money to buy food. The dependence on alcohol influenced his entire, albeit brief existence, so that there is no story that somehow does not bind Dylan to a pub for a pint of beer, a glass of whiskey. He began drinking young, at Swansea the father, David J. Thomas, was an avid drinker. Become a reporter for the South Wales Evening Post , drinking beer with colleagues in various pubs in Swansea became a habit is essential that will quickly lead to the extreme over the years. "I liked the taste of beer, live white lather ITS, ITS brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing Down to the lapping belly , the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners " , wrote in those years. Continue drinking even when, in 1934, he moved to London and starts a relationship with a young Pamela Hansford Johnson, in the same year when he published his first collection poetry, 18 Poems. And now fully recognizes his dependence on alcohol: "When I do like to town, bang go my plans in a horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions That like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon tawdriest bars of the pubs in London. " It is in a London pub, the Wheatsheaf , who knows his wife Caitlin, then a model and lover of the painter Augustus John . All their married life will be characterized by mutual betrayals and the constant presence of alcohol. If
favorite pubs in Swansea Dylan had the Uplands Tavern, the Mermaid Hotel and No
Sign Wine Bar, in Laugharne was a frequent visitor to the Browns Hotel, and there was always at the same table in a corner , and spent the whole day to drink and write. As recalled by Gwen Watkins, widow of the great friend of Dylan Vernon Watkins, "He Would Often fall asleep after A Few pints. It did not take very much to make HIM quite merry and from merry just a little bit rambunctious and then fast asleep. Spirits Were a disaster to him - he really Could not Take Them. Could Caitlin. Caitlin Could drink a half bottle of whiskey and You Would not Notice Any Difference. She Was an Irish drinker - someone who Was Brought up on whiskey. " The pub visits were so regular that Dylan began to use the telephone number of the Browns as an address, especially as the Boat House did not have a phone. Jeff Towns, owner of Dylan's Bookstore, says that the place has remained largely as it was 50 years ago, as Dylan reminds us: "It is very much a local pub. The landlord and lady there at the time of Dylan and Caitlin Become very good friends with the Thomases. It Was an absolute daily ritual for him to go there. It has never Become a tourist trap and I kind of Admire it for that. " Only recently the owner of historic Tommy Watts, decided to sell the pub, which was bought by British actor Neil Morrissey , as reported, recalling Thomas, a article the Independent. (Among potential buyers who attended the auction, including Pierce Brosnan and Mick Jagger.)
Dylan died on 9 November 1953, to cerebral hemorrhage caused by an excess of alcohol in the blood. Legend has it that back from the White Horse Tavern in his chamber Chelsea Hotel in New York, exclaimed: "I've Had eighteen straight whiskeys, I think That is a record." In fact, he died after several days of coma, and many deny that it may have been drinking a similar amount of alcohol. What we know for sure is that when he arrived in the U.S. for the third time for another lecture tour organized by John Malcolm Brinnin , his health was already severely at risk. The assistant was Brinnin Reitell Liz, who became the mistress of Thomas Short, the last one.
But there is another argument that Thomas's death was not due to his alcohol addiction, and is supported by David N. Thomas in his "Fatal Neglect: Who Killed Dylan Thomas?" (2008), where they highlighted the responsibilities of Mr. Feltenstein, the doctor who looked after Thomas in New York, accanto a quelle dello stesso J. M. Brinnin.
favorite pubs in Swansea Dylan had the Uplands Tavern, the Mermaid Hotel and No
Sign Wine Bar, in Laugharne was a frequent visitor to the Browns Hotel, and there was always at the same table in a corner , and spent the whole day to drink and write. As recalled by Gwen Watkins, widow of the great friend of Dylan Vernon Watkins, "He Would Often fall asleep after A Few pints. It did not take very much to make HIM quite merry and from merry just a little bit rambunctious and then fast asleep. Spirits Were a disaster to him - he really Could not Take Them. Could Caitlin. Caitlin Could drink a half bottle of whiskey and You Would not Notice Any Difference. She Was an Irish drinker - someone who Was Brought up on whiskey. " The pub visits were so regular that Dylan began to use the telephone number of the Browns as an address, especially as the Boat House did not have a phone. Jeff Towns, owner of Dylan's Bookstore, says that the place has remained largely as it was 50 years ago, as Dylan reminds us: "It is very much a local pub. The landlord and lady there at the time of Dylan and Caitlin Become very good friends with the Thomases. It Was an absolute daily ritual for him to go there. It has never Become a tourist trap and I kind of Admire it for that. " Only recently the owner of historic Tommy Watts, decided to sell the pub, which was bought by British actor Neil Morrissey , as reported, recalling Thomas, a article the Independent. (Among potential buyers who attended the auction, including Pierce Brosnan and Mick Jagger.) Dylan died on 9 November 1953, to cerebral hemorrhage caused by an excess of alcohol in the blood. Legend has it that back from the White Horse Tavern in his chamber Chelsea Hotel in New York, exclaimed: "I've Had eighteen straight whiskeys, I think That is a record." In fact, he died after several days of coma, and many deny that it may have been drinking a similar amount of alcohol. What we know for sure is that when he arrived in the U.S. for the third time for another lecture tour organized by John Malcolm Brinnin , his health was already severely at risk. The assistant was Brinnin Reitell Liz, who became the mistress of Thomas Short, the last one.
But there is another argument that Thomas's death was not due to his alcohol addiction, and is supported by David N. Thomas in his "Fatal Neglect: Who Killed Dylan Thomas?" (2008), where they highlighted the responsibilities of Mr. Feltenstein, the doctor who looked after Thomas in New York, accanto a quelle dello stesso J. M. Brinnin.
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