Saturday 8 November 2014

Copy Cats or Deep Thought?


To be or not to be? 

Is that

not the question?  


My Cat?

My Dad? 

And me? 

Encouraged by the late Dylan Thomas, his life and his works, my thirst and search for a certain kind of knowledge, a poetic-philosophy if you like, continues unabated. I need to get to the bottom of it, this thing we call life.

What is life and what is it for? For me, that is the pertinent question . . . and I plan to keep on searching until I find the answer. Maybe not at the bottom of a beer stein, or yes, maybe even there. First I went HERE to see Dylan's wife Caitlin, the woman he called his Cat.











14 comments:

  1. Keep on drinking, it might clear your head.

    Being an existentialist I would say to you create your own meaning of life, live it and don't talk about it. Put simply it is being free. Everything else is nothing.

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    1. I like the interview with Caitlin Thomas. If you've 34 mins to spare I think you'll like it too. It was recorded in Rome following his death. She lived there with a count but when she died much to everyone's surprise it was discovered that her last wish was to be buried in Wales alongside Dylan in Laugharne. Strangely for me on the day before the news of her death broke in the Guardian newspaper I was in Laugharne, in fact I was there to visit his house.

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    2. You will be forever searching..

      His relationship with CT interests me. I will try to find the interview .

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    3. Rachel, You can find the interview simply by clicking on the word HERE in the text. It should immediately appear.

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    4. Oh, thanks. I'll do it tonight.

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    5. I listened. I remembered about Dylan Thomas and his life when she talked about their life together. I don't think you are going to get to the meaning of life through Dylan Thomas though. I think you should look at philosophers more than poets.

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    6. Yesterday I went to Mauthausen. I tried to make sense of the lives of the 120,000 who died there.

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    7. And then, when I think of it now, the lives of those who killed them and even someone who goes 70 years later, as it might be seen, to 'remember' them?
      ps - I'm currently reading Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals.

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    8. I went to the Killing Fields in Cambodia via the TV set on Sunday night. I felt no nearer to the meaning of life. I felt further away than ever. I am glad you are reading Nietzsche. You might find some reasons, not answers.

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    9. When we feel further away that must be a clue that there must be more to the universe than smoke and snooker balls. Seek and you will find, as somebody once said. And so I shall seek on.

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  2. It is a question I no longer ask Gwil because I know that there is no definitive answer.

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  3. The problem for me is that the answer we are expected to believe in is less than satisfactory although it seems to suit many billions of people of conflicting faiths. For me "I and I" are and is ok.

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  4. You sound like Charles Bukowski, Gwil. I am reading Ham On Rye at the moment.

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    1. Good book Dave. There some of Buk's stuff on this blog. Maybe even a poem I wrote about him/me. The thumbnail at right links to some interesting stuff too. I have his Factotum on stand-by.

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