Heather S.'s review
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
i love this book -- a seminal favorite! so organic initially in it's portrayal of people and relationships and then there is this evolution of the people as the generations pass, new ideas, new freedom, stronger selves. i just love the thoughts on having children -- d.h. never had children and he's a man, nevertheless his insights into a woman's experience are so word perfect! here are some of my favorites snippets:
first a short one:
"There was life outside the church. There was much that the church did not include. He thought of God, and of the whole blue rotunda of the day. That was something great and free. He thought of the ruins of the Grecian worship, and it seems, a temple was never perfectly a temple, till it was ruined and mixed up with the winds and the sky and the herbs"
now a long one -- though i could go on as he writes at great length and quite beautifully on womanhood and childbearing:
"She forgot that she had watched the sun climb up and pas...more
first a short one:
"There was life outside the church. There was much that the church did not include. He thought of God, and of the whole blue rotunda of the day. That was something great and free. He thought of the ruins of the Grecian worship, and it seems, a temple was never perfectly a temple, till it was ruined and mixed up with the winds and the sky and the herbs"
now a long one -- though i could go on as he writes at great length and quite beautifully on womanhood and childbearing:
"She forgot that she had watched the sun climb up and pas...more
