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D. H. Lawrance thread.
Just finishined read this, and started Lady Chatterley's Lover. I really like the way he writes, and found sons and lovers interesting. What does /lit/ think of him and his works?
I've only read his poetry. This is my favorite of his poems, Bavarian Gentians:
Not every man has gentians in his house
in Soft September, at slow, Sad Michaelmas.
Bavarian gentians, big and dark, only dark
darkening the daytime torchlike with the smoking blueness of Pluto's
gloom,
ribbed and torchlike, with their blaze of darkness spread blue
down flattening into points, flattened under the sweep of white day
torch-flower of the blue-smoking darkness, Pluto's dark-blue daze,
black lamps from the halls of Dis, burning dark blue,
giving...
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>>7376029 i really enjoy myself while reading his books. Cant put it down
Anybody here read each version of Lady Chatterley's Lover? Through inheritance I've got a copy of John Thomas & Lady Jane and I'm wondering if it's a worthy substitution or if I should just read Lady Chatterley.
So this novel is basically about how Islam is the best thing to happen to Europe since the Middle Ages, right?
No, it's not a genuine endorsement of Islam, he just uses it as a tool to comment upon Western cultural decay.
>>7376010
Yes and no
>>7376012
He doesn't seem to offer another way in which the West can be saved though. I got the idea is that Islam at this point was the only option to cure the ailments of modernity.
Do you ever come across a word that just disgusts you inexplicably? When you see it in prose, regardless of context, does it grate upon your nerves? Conversely, is there a word that brings you pleasure inexplicably?
I ask this because I have just realized that I irrationally hate "obfuscate" and irrationally love "nebulous". Lovecraft uses both of these a lot.
I think my feelings toward the words are related to the mouthfeel when saying them. Nebulous flows right off the tongue in a natural way, while transitioning from the outward-lip motion...
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>>7375989
Whenever someone uses "vestige" or "vestiges" instead of "remnant" or "remnants" it feels like someone's just grabbed my hand and shoved it into a nest of centipede larvae.
