Thanks for sharing the Lawrence quote, Elan. I recently re-read /Lady Chatterley's Lover/ and was struck by the pre-industrial memory and longing for simplicity that Lawrence expressed. Powerful stuff, but somehow I missed it when I read it in college. Maybe it's easier to see now that we're on the other end of the industrial age?
-- Katie Quinn-Jacobs Elan Shapiro wrote: > We cannot bear connection. That is our malady. We > must break away and be isolate. We call that > being free, being individual. Beyond a certain > point, which we have reached, it is suicideS( What > man most passionately wants is his living > wholeness, and his living unison, not his own > isolate salvation of his "soul." I am part of the > sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of > the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is > part of the seaS( There is nothing of me that is > alone and absolute, except my mind, and we shall > find that the mind has no existence by itself. It > is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of > the waters. > > D.H. Lawrence > > -- _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
