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Emlyn
This is the place to discuss Williams's second autobiography, Emlyn, covering the years 1927-35.
--- "It's all rather stylish and pretty and rather worrying" --Timothy Spall on his costume in Sweeney Todd
"He must have been fun." --Emlyn Williams (liner notes from "Emlyn Williams as Dylan Thomas in 'A Boy Growing Up'")
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10/17/2006, 9:11 pm
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Re: Emlyn
Having read George, reading Emlyn has become a must. We're lucky that there were people convincing him to write.
I looked it up online and found a national database that said my university library has it. A month ago I couldn't find anything in the library catalog, so I looked him up again and they do have a small selection of his works (I must have either learned to spell or to type since then, though it's not evident from my other posts). It had been so long since someone checked out the book, the last date stamped being Nov 1987 or '88, that they had to enter it into the system at the check-out desk. People are missing out!
I looked through some of his other books, and some biographies that have pictures of his family, homes, plays, and Miss Cook. I'm not checking them out yet for fear that I will be asked if I'm doing a paper on him...
From the first section it is obviously written by an older Emlyn. It's often good to have some separation from the events, to give perspective.
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Yeah, same thing at my local library when I first borrowed George; they had to dig it out of the "stacks" for me! At least they had a book of his plays on the shelf though.
I know, I'm glad he was convinced to keep writing too--how can you just stop at the year 1927?! I so wish he had had the time to finish the story ... well, with the understanding that he couldn't possibly have written the "ending" himself, of course. But he stopped right on the eve of his film career! I bet that would have made some really great material! I'd love to get the behind-the-scenes on Jamaica Inn especially.
I do love the older Emlyn and his perspectives. I especially love the whole account of his first trip to New York! OMG, the cockroaches scene ... I'm sure it didn't seem funny to him at the time it happened, but he could have made a comedy film out of that! The way he described it, I was laughing so hard. And the whole ship cruise adventure ... and the way he admits to being a miser. (From that distance of so many years, it seems like he's writing about a different person. It's really cute the way he doesn't take his younger self too seriously.)
--- "It's all rather stylish and pretty and rather worrying" --Timothy Spall on his costume in Sweeney Todd
"He must have been fun." --Emlyn Williams (liner notes from "Emlyn Williams as Dylan Thomas in 'A Boy Growing Up'")
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The library sent me a message today that they are recalling Emlyn, so I have to return it after 3 weeks instead of 6.
Though he mentions them in George, I keep picturing cornflakes when I think of this book. Men are always eating cereal...I stay away from it because it leaves me hungry half an hour after eating it, and decent tasting digestable milk isn't cheap even if watered down.
I can definately relate to his feelings on returning to Oxford for his exams...that strange cross between banishment, purpose, and new roles.
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9/14/2007, 12:14 pm
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