If only Lawrence had been able to use a word-processor. I can visualise him scribbling at his desk, dipping pen in ink, throwing closely written pages on the floor. Then reading them and the effort it would be to prune, edit, cut and paste before making a fair copy for his publisher. We've got used to honed language so perhaps that's why I found this so impossible to read. Yet this is his masterpiece which makes me a philistine.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 89 Summer 2018 ) |
