[HN Gopher] Burning Man: The Ascent of D H Lawrence
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       Burning Man: The Ascent of D H Lawrence
        
       Author : lermontov
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2021-05-05 21:20 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | nickdothutton wrote:
       | Lawrence was right about the USA.
        
         | dang wrote:
         | Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN.
         | If you want to say what you think Lawrence was right about, and
         | why, that might be ok--it depends on how interesting a.k.a.
         | unexpected it turns out to be.
         | 
         | But since flamewars are off topic, you'd want to be careful to
         | avoid nationalistic (in this case) flamebait.
        
         | cafard wrote:
         | About _Studies in the Classic American Literature_?
        
       | rainworld wrote:
       | _With one side of him he saw with true imaginative clarity the
       | ruinous course the world was set on--'as if a whole social form
       | were breaking down, and the human element swarmed within the
       | disintegration, like maggots in cheese ... so that it seems as
       | though we had created a steel framework, and the whole body of
       | society were crumbling and rotting in between'. But all he had to
       | offer in the way of a solution were the sick phallic fantasies
       | and perversities of quasi-impotence, carried in his last novel,
       | Lady Chatterley 's Lover, to a pitch of absurdity seldom, if ever
       | before, equalled.
       | 
       | He was one of those men, tragic and gifted, who work out in
       | themselves the conflicts and dilemmas of their time; who are
       | themselves our own fever and pain. In Lawrence's case, his
       | sickness became the cult of succeeding generations; Lady
       | Chatterley, sponsored by a motley collection of writers, clerics
       | and miscellaneous intelligentsia, was the progenitor of a torrent
       | of porno-eroticism which her creator would have found deeply
       | abhorrent, and incidentally so enriched her publisher in the
       | process that his shares were quoted on the Stock Exchange as
       | Chatterleys._
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       | Malcolm Muggeridge on Lawrence in _Chronicles of Wasted Time_
        
       | hnnnnnnng wrote:
       | I love when I'm halfway through the first paragraph and a giant
       | popup covers my screen. I have to wait for it to load in (because
       | they had to make it a nice transition). Then I have to figure out
       | how to close it. I have no idea what the popup said but I
       | completely forgot what I reading. That's enough of that website.
        
         | dang wrote:
         | " _Please don 't complain about website formatting, back-button
         | breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be
         | interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then
         | friendly feedback might be helpful._"
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        
         | DyslexicAtheist wrote:
         | how does anyone surf the web in 2021 without an ad-block? I'd
         | be more interested in opinions about the article.
         | 
         | https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
         | 
         | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
        
         | oeuhoenth wrote:
         | reader-mode is the best thing to happen to web browsers.
        
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