What’s Sad, Bad and Damned GLAD About Being 66, an Aging Athlete and an “Elder Orphan.” How to Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
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9 min readMay 1, 2019
Dylan Thomas wrote his famous and touching poem to his father, who was going blind, around 1947. Thomas would soon after collapse and die at the ripe old age of 39 the year I was born, 1953. He was a prolific writer, but also a prolific drinker, smoker and carouser. His…
