Tee fig hee, L
Bill
On 09/05/2014, at 11:35 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> I remember reading that in the book when I were a young fellow; and I think
> I may have thought of it every time I ever ate a fig since. I have also
> thought of figs in moments of intimacy
>
> (I once brought a bag of figs back 4 or 5 kms from an abandoned farm to my
> temp landlady in Greece. Presented them. What? Took some time, with my v
> poor Athenian Greek and her voluminous Italianate Greek to explain I was
> giving her them because she had been so kind to me... She smiled tolerantly
> and led me to a gate at the back of the garden - it was a house built IN a
> garden somehow rather than being surrounded by one -- and opened it. This
> led to another, private garden; and in that garden there were only fig
> trees. Thereafter, if she caught me trying to get out of my room and
> through the garden in the morning, she dragged me to the table and not only
> gave me coffee but also figs. This has nothing to do with DHLawrence or any
> of his works, not even his parcel delivery service, but I believe
> throughtout, as I ate these many figs, I thought of that book)
>
> L
>
>
> On 9 May 2014 14:17, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Max. My wife couldn't see the screen and yelled at me to 'Turn that
>> disgusting thing off!' Ha ha - she didn't know it was about a fig ... or
>> was it? :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9 May 2014 20:55, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3iL8euEvO4
>>>
>>> Alan Bates recites the Lawrence poem
>>>
>>> as inserted into the Ken Russell movie
>>>
>>> of 'Women in Love'
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andrew
>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>> 'Undercover of Lightness'
>> http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
>> 'Shikibu Shuffle'
>>
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
>>
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