A conversation with Reid about D.H. Lawrence over Instagram DM

Robert Duncan: "I can’t view Pound alone; D. H. Lawrence must be there… Kenneth Rexroth very early said that you can’t just have a Poundian line, you must also have a Lawrentian one."

@coldcompress: I’ve been on a DH Lawrence kick this spring, finishing up the rainbow.

@coldcompress: but i’m getting a little sick of him and I think this will be the last one I read for awhile.

@coldcompress: got a book of Raymond carver short stories that I’m looking forward to next

@ezra.kg: Yeah, I read lady Chatterley’s lover and it was so cucked I couldn’t jeep

@ezra.kg: keep going

@ezra.kg: and his portrayal of female orgasm was so overtly cope that it rly annoyed me… well written though.

@coldcompress: omg yes he’s a lot

@coldcompress: I loved women in love the most and I’ve just been trying to recreate reading that for the first time but that’s by far the best

@coldcompress: I do like his wild ways though (girl shrug emoji)

@ezra.kg: I guess I just appreciate when there’s some mystery or some ‘distance’ psychologically between characters and writer so I don’t feel like it’s thinly veiled.

@ezra.kg:and when he had syphilis irl he’s writing about this wounded war hero who can’t produce an heir so his wife is fucking the burly groundskeeper.

@ezra.kg: but she can only cum when after he nuts in her he leaves it in and she feels its soft and the makes her cum… so basically a cuckhold fantasizing that the bull’s monster cock doesn’t do much for her but the spirit of her limpdick cuckhold husband is what gets her off.

@ezra.kg: just all so cope to me felt like drinking poison as someone who is not at all interested in cuckholdry.

@coldcompress: Lolll

@coldcompress: it’s all true tho

@coldcompress: I liked how the relationship dynamics felt contemporary in this way like Clifford is an incel figure and the gamekeeper is a chad, and I like how he represented technology as something emasculating and unvirile

@coldcompress: the sex scenes were so on the nose and it’s like what is the point of including this other that just getting himself off

@coldcompress: I think he lost the project in the end

@coldcompress: being from the midwest I really like his dedication to coal mines and farms

@ezra.kg: yeah maybe I will try to read something else from him later. I do appreciate that he seemed to have a somewhat complex message in contrast to more victorian literature of the late 19th century which I can’t stand for the most part… I have an aversion to a lot of the contemporary trad writing now… just not really looking to art for a moral code.