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Re: [LUG] BBC iplayer

 

On 6 Sep 2007, at 20:36, James Fidell wrote:

> Clare Shepherd wrote:
>
>> That's excellent news for all UNIX derived OS users, both Linux & Mac
>> users. BTW I love the Dylan Thomas quote. One of my favourites was
>> said on his way from Wales to London. Wales , Wales Land of My
>> Fathers, and my fathers can keep it.
>
> He's also the author of one of my favourite lines from literature:
>
>   To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small
>   town, starless and bible-black, the cobble streets silent and the
>   hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the
>   sloe black, slow, black, crow black fishing boat-bobbing sea.
>
> James
>
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Absolutely, it's wonderful isn't it. I've the Folio Society edition  
of Under Milkwood, however, I always hear, in my head, the sound of  
Richard Burton chanting the lines like some occult incantation. Sorry  
for being OT. I'll stop now.
Clare

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