“The colonel, poor devil-we knew him afterwards-is now dead. It is strange that he is dead. There is something repulsive to me in the thought of him lying dead: such a humiliating, somehow degraded corpse. Death has no beauty in Italy, unless it be violent. The death of a man or woman through sickness isContinue reading “RKS Literature: Violent and Beautiful Death in Italy (D.H. Lawrence)”
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RKS Literature: Giovanni Returns to America for the Last Time Intending to Return to Italy in Five Years (D.H. Lawrence)
“Nothing was more painful than to see him standing there is his degraded, sordid American clothes, on the deck of the steamer, waving us good-bye, belonging in his final desire to our world, the world of consciousness and deliberate action. With his candid, open, unquestioning face, he seemed like a prisoner being conveyed from oneContinue reading “RKS Literature: Giovanni Returns to America for the Last Time Intending to Return to Italy in Five Years (D.H. Lawrence)”
RKS Literature: Marriage and the Third Thing (D.H. Lawrence)
“It is in the spirit that marriage takes place. In the flesh there is connection; but only in the spirit is there a new thing created out of two antithetic things. In the body I am conjoined with a woman. But in the spirit my conjunction with her creates a third thing, an absolute. AContinue reading “RKS Literature: Marriage and the Third Thing (D.H. Lawrence)”
RKS Literature: Italians; Children of the Sun or of the Shadow? (D.H. Lawrence)
“The Italian people are called ‘Children of the Sun’. They might better be called ‘Children of the Shadow’. Their souls are dark and nocturnal. If they are to be easy, they must be able to hide, to be hidden in lairs and caves of darkness. Going through these tiny, chaotic back-ways of the village wasContinue reading “RKS Literature: Italians; Children of the Sun or of the Shadow? (D.H. Lawrence)”
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