Contrary to the traditional depiction of the setting as a quaint Welsh seaport, a careful reading of the text suggests a very different view: The ficticious town that Dylan Thomas named "Llareggub" is a community populated by bigamists, pedophiles, necrophiles, nymphomaniacs, satanists, and cannibals... to name just a few of its 'colourful little eccentricities.' It is a town where dysfunctions ranging from alcoholism to xenophobia are a way of life. Even the name of the place is "buggerall" spelled backwards.