eric | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 28 2007 | video, Dylan Thomas, literature, poetry, thepugetnews
click to playA beautiful VW commercial with Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood" as the soundtrack.
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Now a book of the same title.
Quoted:As a natural-born child of the meritocracy, I'd been amassing momentum my whole life, entering spelling bees, vying for forensics medals, running my mouth in mock United Nations meetings and model state governments and student congresses, and I knew only one direction: forward, onward. I lived for prizes, praise, distinctions, and I gave no thought to any goal higher or broader than my next report card. Learning was secondary; promotion was primary. No one had ever told me what the point was, except to keep on accumulating points, and this struck me as sufficient. What else was there?
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