Karen Richardson, Curator of the Haldimand County Museum, will be at The Neat Little Bookshop
Thursday, February 2 at 1:30 p.m.
Topic: Romance. Everyone welcome ~ round table discussion. Coffee pot's always on ~ (Do you have a vintage love letter that you would like to share?)
". . . a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board." ~ English novelist, D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
Friday, January 27, 2012
D. H. Lawrence has been described as "not only one of the great lyric geniuses of modern literature" but an "expert on lusts, hatreds, emotions that none before dared pursue."
In a letter to his friend, John Murry, Lawrence advises, "...give her a man to be satisfied with ~ and satisfaction is never accomplished even physically unless the man is strongly and surely himself, and doesn't depend on anything but his own being to make a woman love him. You've tried to satisfy Katherine with what you could earn for her, give her: and she will only be satisfied with what you are."
"...you fool, you squander yourself, not for her, but to provide her with petty luxuries she doesn't really want. You insult her. A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board."
~ The WORLD'S GREAT LETTERS, Simon & Schuster, 1940 Edited by M. L. Schuster.
In a letter to his friend, John Murry, Lawrence advises, "...give her a man to be satisfied with ~ and satisfaction is never accomplished even physically unless the man is strongly and surely himself, and doesn't depend on anything but his own being to make a woman love him. You've tried to satisfy Katherine with what you could earn for her, give her: and she will only be satisfied with what you are."
"...you fool, you squander yourself, not for her, but to provide her with petty luxuries she doesn't really want. You insult her. A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board."
~ The WORLD'S GREAT LETTERS, Simon & Schuster, 1940 Edited by M. L. Schuster.
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