Even if the 18 whiskeys never happened, Thomas must certainly have set a few drinking records in his short life
The many plaques on the front of New York’s Chelsea Hotel include a suitably poetic tribute to a poet who died 70 years ago: “Dedicated to the memory of Dylan Thomas who lived and laboured last here and from here sailed out to die.”
Ogs and Ends - Frank McNally on Michael Collins’s other nickname, the Liffey on film and a Dublin dialect dysfunction But the legend of the 18 shots may have contributed to the diagnosis of Milton Feltenstein, his personal physician, that the poet was suffering delirium tremens and needed morphine. And his letters of the period to friends talk about vast quantities of food consumption in Dublin and Kerry – “we ate ourselves daft: lobsters, steaks, cream, hills of butter, homemade bread, chicken and chocolates” – more than drink.
It was a drinking marriage from start to finish. In the opening lines of her posthumously published memoir, Double Drink Story, she wrote:
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