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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