 | David Herbert Lawrence - 1923 - 562 pages
...the old defences and the old body gone, and new air around one, that has never been breathed before." She listened, making out what he said. She knew, as...drew back, even though her desire sent her forward. "But," she said gravely, "didn't you say you wanted something that was not love — something beyond... | |
 | D. H. Lawrence - 1987 - 700 pages
...the old defences and the old body gone, a new air around one, that has never been breathed before." She listened, making out what he said. She knew, as...we make, a dumb show like any other. And she seemed 30 to feel his gesture through her blood, and she drew back, even though her desire sent her forward.... | |
 | Michael Bell - 1992 - 268 pages
...conversation with Gudrun; in response to Birkin we find instead: She listened, making out what she said. She knew, as well as he knew, that words themselves...drew back, even though her desire sent her forward. (Women in Love, p. 186) Language, it seems, is compelling in its power to falsify and confuse while... | |
 | D. H. Lawrence - 2002 - 594 pages
...the old defences and the old body gone, a new air around one, that has never been breathed before." She listened, making out what he said. She knew, as well as he 35 knew, that words themselves do not convey meaning, that they are but a gesture we make, a dumb show... | |
 | Arthur F. Bethea - 2001 - 340 pages
...have vulgarised it" (26). According to the third-person narrator, Ursula "knew, as well as" Birkin "knew, that words themselves do not convey meaning,...but a gesture we make, a dumb show like any other" (185). Lawrence privileges the right kind of touching, a physical union that allows for a mysterious... | |
 | Gisela Argyle - 2002 - 284 pages
...literary teaching into the novel. Discussing the possibility of regeneration, Birkin and Ursula are aware "that words themselves do not convey meaning, that they are but a gesture we make . . . Yet it must be spoken." Ursula also fears words "because she knew that mere wordforce could always... | |
 | David Herbert Lawrence - 2005 - 678 pages
...the old defences and the old body gone, and new air around one, that has never been breathed before.' She listened, making out what he said. She knew, as...not convey meaning, that they are but a gesture we 249 make, a dumb show like any other. And she seemed to feel his gesture through her blood, and she... | |
 | Shin'ichiro Ishikawa - 2004 - 408 pages
...where Ursula, who "listened, making out what he [Burkin] said" half attentively, is said to have known "that words themselves do not convey meaning, that...but a gesture we make, a dumb show like any other" (186). Lawrence is aware of fragility under the superficial authority of language and the sun. The... | |
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She listened, making out what he said. She knew, as well as he knew, that words themselves do not convey meaning, that they are but a gesture we make, a dumb show like any other. 