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W.D. Clarke
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...the real scandal of the book should not have been its title, or its quaking along the fault lines of sexuality and race, but rather its linguistic ineptitude of the first order, which is exactly what Lawrence means by “false”: every novel is true or false in its language before it’s true or false in anything else.(On DH Lawrence on Karl van Vechten's 1925 unnamable novel)











