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D.H. Lawrence
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  • D. H. Lawrence's work is profoundly political even when it doesn't look like it, even when he is less overt than in Women in Love, where he has a character say of a robin that it looks like a "little Lloyd-George of the air."†   (source)
  • Anna Karenina throws herself under the train, Emma Bovary solves her problem with poison, D. H. Lawrence's characters are always engaging in physical violence toward one another, Joyce's Stephen Dedalus is beaten by soldiers, Faulkner's Colonel Sartoris becomes a greater local legend when he guns down two carpetbaggers in the streets of Jefferson, and Wile E. Coyote holds up his little "Yikes" sign before he plunges into the void as his latest gambit to catch the Road Runner fails.†   (source)
  • D. H. Lawrence gave us any number of short stories where characters devour and destroy one another in life-and-death contests of will, novellas like "The Fox" (1923) and even novels like Women in Love (1920), in which Gudrun Brangwen and Gerald Crich, although ostensibly in love with one another, each realize that only one of them can survive and so engage in mutually destructive behavior.†   (source)
  • D. H. Lawrence   (source)
  • "You want to hand over this battle to D. H. Lawrence," said Abe.†   (source)
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