Lady Chatterley and Beauty(PART 1 OF 3)


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on the English Bay!

From: diane03760@vancouver.ca
To: barclay1720@aol.com
Date: Sun, Sep 11, 2011 4:45 pm.
Pacific Daylight Saving Time
Hi Kato,
Reading these wonderful quotes reminded me of you.
You're amazingly astute at picking up on interesting topics and angles with which to perceive things.
I expect you're a fan of D.H. Lawrence as well.
Even if you're not, you may enjoy some of these observations.
"The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread."

Who said this?
What was the title of his 1928 novel?
ANSWER:
D. H. Lawrence.
"Lady Chatterley’s Lover."
D.H. Lawrence Heritage
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"Lady Chatterley’s Lover" was written in 1928 and first published in Italy.
Considered obscene in England, America, and other English-speaking countries, the book was primarily available only in privately-printed or black-market editions until the first unexpurgated edition was published in England in 1960.


What Role Does Beauty Play in Your Life?
People need beauty even more than some of the other things that are typically viewed as essential.
Yes, we need food, lodging, and other material resources in order to survive.
But we all have a deep aesthetic need as well, and one that must be met in order to truly live.
Christopher Morley put it nicely when he wrote:
"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."
To find and appreciate beauty in life does not require great financial resources or mean that we must travel to far-off, exotic places:
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nor do we need to purchase treasured artistic objects or build opulent homes:
"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."
---John Ruskin
No, all that is required is that we occasionally step off the treadmill and make a conscious attempt to appreciate the great beauty that exists in the world.
To further advance your thinking on this subject, here are a dozen beautifully-crafted observations on the theme:
"There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty."
---Joseph Addison
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
---Confucius
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

---Albert Einstein
"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever."
---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

---Franz Kafka
"The ideal has many names, and beauty is one of them."
---W. Somerset Maugham
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
---Edgar Allan Poe
"If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
Your life will be impoverished.
But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."
---Frank Lloyd Wright
I hope you'll enjoy the above quotes.
Thanks again, kiddo.

Love, Diane ~

Diane, how come you know that I'm a fan of D.H. Lawrence?

Well...just a hunch, you know. :)
Maybe, you think I'm a man of salacious nature, don't you?
Well...all the men are salacious in a sense, aren't they? :)
You're right on, Diane.
So, Kato, you consider "Lady Chatterley's Lover" to be a beautiful movie---not an obscene movie, don't you?
Oh yes, I do. It's a beautiful movie. No question about that.
Why is that?
You quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"Though we travel the world
over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us
or we find it not."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yes, I did. So, Kato, did you think it over last night?

Yes, I did, and I came up with the right interpretation.
Oh, did you? Tell me about it.
Here it is:


Beauty is within yourself.
Otherwise, you would never find it.
You can experience beauty
by intuition.
---Your truly skinny Socrates, Kato
SOURCE: "Diane and Beauty"
(Monday, September 12, 2011)

I see...if you did't have beauty in yourself, you wouldn't find beauty in "Lady Chatterley's Lover."

You're right on that point, Diane.
Kato, tell me about "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
(To be continued)