What do B3tans think of DH Lawrence?
I made this!
I'm an ignorant engineer so for me, he was just a geezer who caused a kerfuffle with his racy writing last century. Then I watched The Menace of the Masses and it caused me quite a bit of discomfort. So I did some knob twiddling. Posted here for your delight - or ridicule.
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d0gbyte, Sun 9 Nov 2025, 6:31,
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I'm really looking forward to hearing this on the drive home today.
I tell the Chatterley story a lot to visitors to Westminster Abbey, but recently have started concluding with "he's gone so out of fashion as a writer that I'm wondering if he was any good". But I still mutter a curse on his behalf every time I go into a branch of Boots. He fucking hated Boots and what they did to Nottingham.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Sun 9 Nov 2025, 7:51,
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Don't get too excited...
It's mainly an instrumental but the intro uses edited clips of his writing - hopefully not as biased as the current BBC/Trump interview editing rumpus.
Hope you enjoy the music though :-)
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d0gbyte, Sun 9 Nov 2025, 8:17,
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I've listened and I love the music and the atmosphere as a whole.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Sun 9 Nov 2025, 9:59,
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my dad had a copy of Lady chatterly's lover on the bookshelf.
it was a very big deal in Australia in the 60s, basically some blokes distributed enough pirate copies that particular banned book that the whole concept of book censorship fell apart and everyone loosened up a bit. Owning one was kind of a way for suburban dads to show they were hip, as his mates also had it. I never read it cover to cover, but flicked through it looking for the rooting as a teenager. However given that in the 80s the dads also all had stashes of Color Climax danish porn, it was all a bit tame by then,
its a nice groove
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 9 Nov 2025, 9:39,
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Married to one of the Von Richtofens.
Apparently Lawrence was suspected of being a spy by the Germans, no doubt his provincial Nottinghamshire upbringing provided the ideal accent for blending in seamlessly in Germany, 'Ay Up Mein Dűck!'
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