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Episode 755: All The Christmases Roll Down toward the Two-Tongued Sea

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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather deliver this years Christmas Litcast, overthinking Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.” They discuss the work’s distinctive form, comparing it to slam poetry, and delve into the specifics of its scenes, focused on memory, nostalgia, aging, so-called childhood “innocence,” and how literature produces truth.

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Further Reading
  • “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” by Dylan Thomas
    • Read by the author
    • Wikipedia
    • “A Visit from Saint Nicholas (in the Ernest Hemingway Manner)” by James Thurber

      • Episode 755: All The Christmases Roll Down toward the Two-Tongued Sea originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

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