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Even if you don't know D.H Lawrence, you do. Much in the way that Miles Davis' "Bitches' Brew" unwittingly paved the road for Kenny G., the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover has bequeathed to our collective consciousness some of the cheesiest excesses of the English imagination. (We all know them by now; the sturdy matron, the randy stable boy, a "coincidence" in the back of an ancient Woolsley. Boom chickaboom...
...feared and dreaded negation which aroused Lawrence's violent hatred. He thrived on her contradictions. Despite her flagrant infidelities, he insisted that she was the love of his life. She served as the inspiration for works as varied as the violent "The Woman Who Rode Away" and Lady Chatterley's Lover...
Dreaming of the day when life and love would be "a quite unlosable game," Philip Larkin wrote, "Sexual intercourse began/in nineteen sixty-three/(Which was rather late for me)/Between the end of the Chatterley ban/And the Bestle's first I.P." Sadly, 1963 was too late for Lawrence as well...
...would finally have some relief from Valentine's Day pressures. But February 14 there meant that a small number of undersexed Southern belles received big fancy gifts from their undersexed Southern beaus two hundred miles away, while the rest of us had to be satisfied by furtively reading Lady Chatterley's Lover or giving each other home perms...
Books were hot stuff 30 years ago, when Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer broke censorship barriers and hit the best-seller lists. At the same time, Lenny Bruce set the four-letter standard for comics, and in the '70s Pryor and George Carlin brought it to the masses, where it belonged. Midnight Cowboy, which won an Oscar for best picture of 1969, was rated X, and so were other lauded films, such as Medium Cool, Performance and The Devils. Explicit lyrics have been in the pop mainstream since the late '60s; the Jefferson Airplane sang "Up against...