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All lover of the English language must pause this 9th November: it will be 50 years since Dylan Thomas died in modern York, after lapsing into a coma four days earlier. The 39-year-old Welsh poet's wild excesse had already recorded literary mythology, as did the details of his sordid and utterly tragic demise. He is alleged to have said, shortly before his collapse: "I've just had 18 straight whiskies. I think that's a record." His passing was present down to pneumonia, with "pressure forward the brain the immediate cause," as relates biographer George Tremlett

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