 ... the forest, suddenly she started to tremble uncontrollably. The white torso of the man had seemed so beautiful to her, splitting the gloom. The white, firm, divine body with that silky firm skin! Never mind the man's face, with the fierce moustache...  The First and Second Lady Chatterley Novels - Side xviiiav D. H. Lawrence - 1999 - 689 siderBegrenset visning - Om denne boken
 | Linda Ruth Williams - 1993 - 198 sider
...replaying to themselves the image of their horror. Lawrence does not shrink from the violence of this: 'his body in itself was divine, cleaving through the gloom like a revelation'; later the same body is described as 'splitting the gloom' (FLC, 27), like gunshot. For all the sublime... | |
 | David Parker - 1994 - 232 sider
...mind the man's face, with the fierce moustache and the resentful, hard eyes ! Never mind his stupid personality ! His body in itself was divine, cleaving...best had never had that silky, rippling firmness, the more than human loveliness. It was with great difficulty she brought herself to go back to the cottage... | |
 | Adam Parkes - 1996 - 257 sider
...Chatterley, Connie responds to this surprise encounter as to pure revelation: "Never mind his stupid personality! His body in itself was divine, cleaving through the gloom like a revelation" (FLC, p. 27). Consequently, in the first version the "pure body" comes to represent something that... | |
 | Irene Visser, Helen Wilcox - 2006 - 258 sider
...mind the man's face, with the fierce moustache and the resentful, hard eyes! Never mind his stupid personality! His body in itself was divine, cleaving through the gloom like a revelation.83 The repeated insistence that his body is 'divine', even 'a revelation', is even stronger... | |
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