D.H. Lawrence, part 6

Anais Nin wrote her first book in 1932: D.H. Lawrence, An Unprofessional Study.

She writes about Lady Chatterly's Lover in the last chapter of the book and notes Lawrence's concept of marriage: "marriage is no marriage that is not basically and permanently phallic, and that is not linked up with the sun and the earth, the moon and the fixed stars and the planets, in the rhythms of months, in the rhythms quarters, of years, of decades and of centuries. Marriage is no marriage that is not a correspondence of blood. For the blood is the substance of the soul, and of the deepest consciousness."

She writes further that Lawrence told us: "the affinity of mind and personality is an excellent basis of friendship between the sexes, but a disastrous basis for marriage." There's got to be chemistry not found in a brother/sister or mother/son relationship. You can't sleep in separate beds; you've got to maintain the intimacy and closeness that lovers have. You've got to turn each other on and express yourselves physically.