Posted by Steven
on 3/3/2009, 22:33:26, in reply to "Re: What are you reading?"
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: What did you think of Lady Chatterley's lover?
I enjoyed it very much, as I have all of D. H. Lawrence's books that I have read. It's ironic that we should have had a discussion about resistance to technological change, because that, in a way, is what the novel expresses. Yes, there is sex, beautifully and memorably described, but Lawrence uses this to contrast natural love with the dehumanizing effects of industrialization.
There is one remarkable passage--I wish I had copied it--about the obscenity of developing a new industry for the sole purpose creating a market to sustain an old one (the coal mines) which had done nothing but ruin people's health and foul the environment. It made me think about the questionable wisdom of all these corporate bailouts we're paying to businesses that we may be better off without.
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