| Description | Comprises references to various works: Everybody Loves Saturday Night (commissioned for radio by Herbert Davies); Sing a Song of Ego, Boy (which was later re-written and published as History Is What You Live); Stan’s Channel; Sing a Song of Threepence; To Rob, to Kill, to hang; A Blackish Fable – being easier to relate than the whiter kind; Able, Disabled and Dying (later renamed The Kingdom of Esther); So Long,Hector Bebb; The Flood-out; One Man, One Voice; The Potato-pickers. Also includes references to Hilary de Hesse, Alun Richards, Gwyn Thomas, Gwyn Jones (Head of the Welsh Arts Council), Jack Eddy, dealings with the National Assistance Board, working for BBC Radio as a short story reader, angling, family and family relationships, attending the sessions of a clairvoyant or spiritualist, Mrs Gillham, writing a poem World without War for the Miners’ Festival Competition, writing a piece (called ‘Credo nibbled out of Ego’, unpublished) for The London Welshman. Also mention of his reading (including William Faulkner, Kingsley Amis, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer and Gwyn Thomas), the assassination of President Kennedy and the death of Aldous Huxley. |