Huxley said of Lawrence: “He could cook, he could sew, he could darn a stocking and milk a cow, he was an efficient woodcutter and a good hand at embroidery, fires always burned when he had laid them and a floor after he had scrubbed it was thoroughly clean." Huxley also appears in the Lawrence comic in the Dawn of the Unread series.
Sadly, Lawrence was only 44 when he died. He still had a lot of emotional and philosophical growing to do and might have been quite different as he got older. Amazing how much he wrote in his young life. Huxley was such a great man. For me, it's quite obvious that Lawrence was reacting against the closeted sexuality and Puritanism of his younger life. He had to react aggressively against it to write his greatest books, like Women In Love and Lady Chatterly's Lover. His influence on me as young writer was immense. He encourages sensuality, openness, vulnerabilty. That particularly works for women, who come to it more naturally, I believe, than men.
Read his psychology of the unconscious and fantasy of the unconscious, there he does talk about how we ahould do both. The mind and the gut. The brain and the blood. He's amazing and i love aldous too! D.h. grappled with the same questions!
This is fine until Huxley goes off on his own recipe for living; then it becomes flabby. Huxley's vision is, of course, more reasonable and workable than Lawrence's. However, good as Huxley is, I read D. H. Lawrence's poems and fiction (and some of the essays) with ten times the delight, attentiveness, belief, and interest that Huxley can manage to evoke.
Excellent, truly excellent analysis of this clip, thank you, from the heart. Listening to this I wondered why l was fading: Roger Lathbury articulated it. As for Lawrence, for ALL his faults, l find the rare times when he does hit, the epiphany is so powerful and sustaining it stays with you your whole
Someone once asked me who I would have for dinner around a table, 'pick 4 people' they said. I said 'D H Lawrence ( poet ) Yehuda Amichai ( poet ) Charles Bukowski ( poet ) and Boudicca ( female warrior shieldmaiden ). Just to add a real woman to the mix. I will forever smile at my guests. I hope in the afterlife it will be made so. What remarkable individuals.
Today we hear that Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, etc., anyone who goes on the Joe Rogan show is a genius, but let anyone alive try speaking the English language as well as Huxley did.
Jason Kennedy likewise with writers today, maya angelou is a genius? Not even close, DFW, Franzen, Hitchens, god no, Lawrence is perhaps the greatest stylist in English, in addition, his descriptions are someimes baffling, making no sense, but more often they are shocking, startling in their truthness. As Huxley says his perception was like a childs. He saw things nobody else saw. Reading him years after school, some thousands of books later, rewding him is like swimming in a river flowing from mountains, after swimming in polluted rivers
Richard Blondell surprising reply, as so few people seem to care for Lawrence these days. I find even his weaker works have passages with an unrivalled vitality. Hard to imagine two more contrasting figures, but heartening to hear the note of wonder in Huxley's voice at the prolific nature of David Herbert.
And yet they should publish ALL Lawrence's letters at an affordable paperback price, not just a 'Selected...' OR the inflated Cambridge hardback prices (it's our shitty economy, I guess). He was a great letter writer. I would definitely put the 'Selected Letters...' up there with the best stuff to read.
Huxley said of Lawrence: “He could cook, he could sew, he could darn a stocking and milk a cow, he was an efficient woodcutter and a good hand at embroidery, fires always burned when he had laid them and a floor after he had scrubbed it was thoroughly clean." Huxley also appears in the Lawrence comic in the Dawn of the Unread series.
My favorite author, his sensitivity and brilliance of observation were unmatched.
Sadly, Lawrence was only 44 when he died. He still had a lot of emotional and philosophical growing to do and might have been quite different as he got older. Amazing how much he wrote in his young life. Huxley was such a great man. For me, it's quite obvious that Lawrence was reacting against the closeted sexuality and Puritanism of his younger life. He had to react aggressively against it to write his greatest books, like Women In Love and Lady Chatterly's Lover. His influence on me as young writer was immense. He encourages sensuality, openness, vulnerabilty. That particularly works for women, who come to it more naturally, I believe, than men.
Read his psychology of the unconscious and fantasy of the unconscious, there he does talk about how we ahould do both. The mind and the gut. The brain and the blood.
He's amazing and i love aldous too!
D.h. grappled with the same questions!
got Viking's portable d.h. Lawrence, and also some of the wonderful affordable wordsworth editions of his novels!
A struggle for details.
This is fine until Huxley goes off on his own recipe for living; then it becomes flabby. Huxley's vision is, of course, more reasonable and workable than Lawrence's. However, good as Huxley is, I read D. H. Lawrence's poems and fiction (and some of the essays) with ten times the delight, attentiveness, belief, and interest that Huxley can manage to evoke.
Excellent, truly excellent analysis of this clip, thank you, from the heart. Listening to this I wondered why l was fading: Roger Lathbury articulated it. As for Lawrence, for ALL his faults, l find the rare times when he does hit, the epiphany is so powerful and sustaining it stays with you your whole
The interviewer voice is the same guy who speaks in the audio parts of english exams.
Someone once asked me who I would have for dinner around a table, 'pick 4 people' they said. I said 'D H Lawrence ( poet ) Yehuda Amichai ( poet ) Charles Bukowski ( poet ) and Boudicca ( female warrior shieldmaiden ). Just to add a real woman to the mix. I will forever smile at my guests. I hope in the afterlife it will be made so. What remarkable individuals.
Today we hear that Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, etc., anyone who goes on the Joe Rogan show is a genius, but let anyone alive try speaking the English language as well as Huxley did.
Jason Kennedy likewise with writers today, maya angelou is a genius? Not even close, DFW, Franzen, Hitchens, god no, Lawrence is perhaps the greatest stylist in English, in addition, his descriptions are someimes baffling, making no sense, but more often they are shocking, startling in their truthness. As Huxley says his perception was like a childs. He saw things nobody else saw. Reading him years after school, some thousands of books later, rewding him is like swimming in a river flowing from mountains, after swimming in polluted rivers
Richard Blondell surprising reply, as so few people seem to care for Lawrence these days. I find even his weaker works have passages with an unrivalled vitality. Hard to imagine two more contrasting figures, but heartening to hear the note of wonder in Huxley's voice at the prolific nature of David Herbert.
Huxley thought a drip-dry shirt meant you wore it in the shower.
Dunes
It seems to show garden-variety snobbery on your part. Lawrence’s style is too purple and prolix.
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Huxley's introduction to Lawrence's letters in a 1930's edtion is excellent
And yet they should publish ALL Lawrence's letters at an affordable paperback price, not just a 'Selected...' OR the inflated Cambridge hardback prices (it's our shitty economy, I guess). He was a great letter writer. I would definitely put the 'Selected Letters...' up there with the best stuff to read.
I agree. In the coming age of robots , we will need Lawrence as never before.
2:37 lol
Sa