Old Man and Tower - The Monday Morning Memo

“…you’re weeks older now, is your hair grey? have you put your hair up, and do you look like a real adult person…? You mustn’t look too grown up, because you’d look older than me; and you’ll never, I’ll never let you, grow wise, and I’ll never, you shall never let me, grow wise, and we’ll always be young and unwise together. There is, I suppose, in the eyes of the They, a sort of sweet madness about you and me, a sort of mad bewilderment and astonishment oblivious to the Nasties and the Meanies…. I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.”

- Dylan Thomas, 21, part of an early love letter he wrote to Caitlin McNamara, whom he later married.

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