Friday, 2 January 2015
DH Lawrence - the moon - and Women in Love
so this has become something of a DH Lawrence night....i was looking for a quote from Women In Love about the way the reflection of the moon upon the water cannot be destroyed - always regathers the scattered fragments and becomes whole again - no matter how many times someone tries to destroy it by throwing stones at it.....the feminine moon 'getting stronger, it was re-asserting itself, the inviolable moon....the strengthened moon, that shook upon the water in triumphant reassumption' - even though shadows obliterate where 'the heart of the moon had been' he who casts the stones sees 'the moon regathering itself....calling back the scattered fragments, winning home the fragments, in a pulse and an effort of return..'.... 'Ursula was dazed, her mind was all gone. She felt she had fallen to the ground and was spilled out, like water on the earth. Motionless and spent, she remained in the gloom'....though aware the 'flakes of light' were 'coming stealthily together....They were gathering heart again, they were coming once more into being. Gradually the fragments caught together, re-united, heaving, rocking, dancing, falling back as in panic, but working their way home again persistently....until a ragged rose, a distorted, frayed moon was shaking upon the waters again, re-asserted, renewed, trying to recover from it's convulsion, to get over the disfigurement and the agitation, to be whole and composed, at peace' (DH Lawrence - Women in Love)....this is how I feel about recent events - I have been silent and invisible as the scattered moon on the water until the scattered fragments begun to re-assert and make their way home to my heart and the center of my being....the pieces will fragment and scatter....and they will always find the way back...and even if they re-assert in slightly different order they will still re-assert to make something slightly different but new....no matter how many times they try to shatter the image of the moon on the water.
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