Mrs Calloway’s Reviews > [(The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas)] [ By (author) Dylan Thomas, Edited by John Goodby ] [October, 2014] > Status Update
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The answer given is conventional; to answer the quickening pulse of desire by speeding up his ‘actions’ and ‘defying time’, so advancing more rapidly to maturity. Yet the terms in which this is presented – suggestive of Einstein’s description of the way the universe appears as one approaches the speed of light – suggests relativity, not certainty;
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