Name: Sea and Sardinia
Author: D. H. Lawrence
ISBN: 9781717300898

Sea and Sardinia

D. H. Lawrence

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Author Description

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to movein some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on themove, and to know whither.Why can't one sit still? Here in Sicily it is so pleasant: the sunnyIonian sea, the changing jewel of Calabria, like a fire-opal moved inthe light; Italy and the panorama of Christmas clouds, night with thedog-star laying a long, luminous gleam across the sea, as if baying atus, Orion marching above; how the dog-star Sirius looks at one, looks atone! he is the hound of heaven, green, glamorous and fierce!--and thenoh regal evening star, hung westward flaring over the jagged darkprecipices of tall Sicily: then Etna, that wicked witch, resting herthick white snow under heaven, and slowly, slowly rolling herorange-coloured smoke. They called her the Pillar of Heaven, theGreeks. It seems wrong at first, for she trails up in a long, magical,flexible line from the sea's edge to her blunt cone, and does not seemtall. She seems rather low, under heaven. But as one knows her better,

Page Count:
316

Publication Date:
2018-04-22

Publisher:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

ISBN-10:
1717300898

ISBN-13:
9781717300898