Thomas, Dylan

The apocalyptic mentality lives with unbelievable intensity in the continuous present, burning himself out in order to produce a break-through into eternity he wants his revolution and he wants it now. His desire is for a communion with the entire world, an undifferentiated sense of merging that allows for no distinctions out of this mode arises the psychopath. His ideal is an anarchic chaos that would be hell on earth. Norman O. Brown s Love s Body describes this mode, and figures like Dylan Thomas, Charlie Parker, and Richard Farina embody it. 

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Apart from their documented use thoughout history poisons were also mentioned in literature, for example in Shakespeare s Macbeth Double, double toil and trouble . . . Root of hemlock, digg d i th dark. . In Flaubert s Madame Bovary, the victim was famously poisoned by arsenic, and arsenic again featured in the poem Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas, in which arsenic biscuits were mentioned. 

John Goodby and Christopher Wigginton, Shut, too, in a tower of words Dylan Thomas Modernism, Locations of Literary Modernism Region and Nation in British and American Modernist Poetry, ed. Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins (Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 90. 

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