Dear Alison
e-mail textures again! I certainly wasn't suggesting that Lawrence was a
member of the bourgeoisie. Country and town, they are inextricably linked,
the town wouldn't be there without the country in the first place. Although
I am an urban creature I was actually born in a village, my Brummie accent
is a yokel voice, hence its slowness on vowel sounds, it's just the North
Warwickshire accent. When I was a kid one of the most numinous sights was
the incredibly polluted Fazeley Canal - people threw anything into it,
particularly old prams and worn-out tyres, these objects, floating along in
the detritus of industrial Birmingham, especially the rainbow coloured
slicks that factory discharges produce, could produce together a sense of
incredible beauty, as beautiful as the stars in their glory, which after all
are nothing but a bunch of very distant slow fusion nuclear reactors.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Spectare's Web, A Chide's Alphabet
& Painting Without Numbers
http://www.chidesalphabet.org.uk
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From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: god, religion etc.
On 8/3/04 10:19 AM, "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Interesting, Lawrence, but pastoral.
I'm puzzled by this comment. How is there anything inherently wrong with
Lawrence's rather beautiful description of that state that natural phenomena
bigger than us can induce? Lawrence lives in London, and has certainly
never struck me as a typical member of the privileged bourgeoisie, so is
surely aware of the nastier side of urban existence. As a country girl
myself, I am also aware of what's been called recently "anti-pastoral", the
acknowledgement of less than ideal aspects of man's interactions with
nature. I was never especially romantic about rural existence (hard to
maintain here) but I absolutely recognise what Lawrence is saying. I spent
a lot of time watching moonrises and sunsets as a child, and when I want
some meditative space I often go and look at the sea, which is most
certainly not an illusion.
Best
A
Alison Croggon
Editor, Masthead
http://www.masthead.net.au
Home page
http://www.alisoncroggon.com
Blog
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