Sea and Sardinia Author:D. H. Lawrence D. H. LAWRENCE writes languorously and bewilderingly in "Sea and Sardinia". Color, charm, and an amazing array of emotions flood this beautifully volume. It is Lawrence the dreamer and mystic brought in contact with the easeful climate and life of a mellowing civilization. Wonderful reading. And there is humor, too, together with those emotions ... more »along the gamut from nausea to terror of a volcano. Such writing as this:
"Wonderful to go out on a frozen road, to see the grass in shadow bluish with hoar-frost, to see the grass in the yellow winter-sunrise beams melting and going cold-twinkly. Wonderful the bluish, cold air, and things standing up in cold distance. After two southern winters, with roses blooming all the time, this bleakness and this touch of frost in the ringing morning goes to my soul like an intoxication. I am so glad, on this lonely naked road, I don't know what to do with myself. I walk down in the shallow grassy ditches under the loose stone walls, I walk on the little ridge of grass, the little bank on which the wall is built, I cross the road across the frozen cow-droppings: and it is all so familiar to my feet, my very feet in contact, that I am wild as if I had made a discovery. And I realize that I hate lime-stone, to live on lime-stone or marble or any of those limey rocks. I hate them. They are dead rocks, they have no life?thrills for the feet. Even sandstone is much better. But granite! Granite is my favorite. It is so live under the feet, it has a deep sparkle of its own. I like its roundnesses?and I hate the jaggy dryness of lime-stone, that burns in the sun, and withers."« less