🍃 Lady Chatterley's Lover 20 January 2023
This was a re-read of the famous D.H. Lawrence book. When I first read it, I was in my early 20s and had a huge focus on the sex and intimacy of the story. However, in my later 20s, I now had a bigger picture lens on as I read. This lead me to focus on some of the interesting parallels between the 1920s (when the book was written) and the 2020s that we find ourselves wading through now. The author provides commentary on marriage, sex, humans' relationship with the environment, and of course our own individual egos that get lost in the deep and steady drumbeats of the universe. There were occasionally sexist and racist undertones that I picked up on but despite that, my greatest takeaway from this book on a second read is that life is for us to make of it what we will and love, sex, marriage, and meaningful connection are all threads in a tapestry of living life fully here and now. Striving for a happy and full life (before death) that is in tune with the universe is a worthy purpose.
"Let us prepare now for the death of our present 'little' life, and re-emergence in a bigger life, in touch with the moving cosmos."