“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)”
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