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“Lady Chatterley's Lover could do nothing but awaken those who desired to be awakened. For others, the experience has to be gone through, not with the body but with the mind. Lawrence says himself: "This is the real point of the book. I want men and women to be able to think sex, fully, completely, honestly and cleanly." Now this cannot be done if we are afraid of words.”
— Jan 20, 2022 12:58PM
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Meena Menon
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“But if Lawrence had meant to justify mere sensation for its own sake he would have stopped with the descriptions of the physical acts. As it is, one French commentator at least has taken him to task for exalting sexual experience and enveloping it with mysticism.”
— Jan 20, 2022 12:56PM
Meena Menon
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“an old philosophic truth, but one concealed from all but the mystics: an experience, provided it is lived with intensity and sincerity, often leads out of itself into its opposite. Novalis called it the "perfection of the absolute" and said: "All absolute sensation is religious.”
— Jan 20, 2022 12:55PM
Meena Menon
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“Here the rhythm of emotions is associated with the profounder rhythm of nature itself (a feeling familiar to the poets), and Lady Chatterley feels that she is sinking into the deepest sources of creation.”
— Jan 20, 2022 12:54PM
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“However: "The girl who has got to make her way in life has got to be dauntless, and if she has a pretty, demure manner with it, then lucky girl. She kills two birds with two stones. ”
— Jan 19, 2022 02:44PM
Meena Menon
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My book is so awesome and it’s my life and everything that I’ve overcome. The people that have kept me from my work and sex from the around 1995 hate me for it because I’ll be in that list.
— Jan 19, 2022 02:39PM
Meena Menon
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“Of course, the woman-artist, who was herself an image maker, a pattern maker, made her own images and her own patterns. Georges Sand was Georges Sand all through. In fact, a revelation to men. So was Madame de Stael—absolute self-created individualities. So were Jane Austen and George Eliot, Amy Lowell, and so, today, is Ruth Draper”
— Jan 19, 2022 02:39PM
