[lit-ideas] Re: A Room of War's Own

Friday, November 25, 2005, 8:53:09 PM, Robert Paul wrote:

JE>> Judy Evans wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>>Now to stagger out into the snowy wastes -- anyone would think this
>>>>was Canada!
>> 
>> 
>> RP> Nah. We've read Dylan Thomas, and know all about Wales.
>> 
>> that's ambiguous...

RP> One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the 
RP> sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of
RP> the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never
RP> remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve
RP> or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

Ah.  (Of course.) I thought my "staggered" might come into it.  Interestingly, 
my
childhood memories of West Wales are rather like this,
so perhaps there's a Welsh folk memory of Christmas and New Year snow.




-- 
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK

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