Thursday, September 14, 2023

"To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.”

 

To begin at the beginning: It is a spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea." Keep reading here

Under Milk Wood is probably the most enchanting work for broadcasting ever written, in which an omniscient narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of the fictional small Welsh fishing town, Llareggub - "buggerall" spelt backwards.

It's a kaleidoscope of all human life. Enjoy!