T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 313

To H.Williamson What D.H.Lawrence means by "Lady Chatterl/ey's Lover" is that the idea of sex, a "the role strong vital instinct," being considered indecent causes men to lose what might be their vital strength and pride of life - their integrity. Conversely, the idea of "genitals being beauty" in the Blakian sense would free humanity from its lowering and disintegrating immorality of iced and stunted thought. Lawrence wilted & was made written by/ the "miners-chapel-dirty little boy, you" environment; he was ruined by it: and in most of his work he is striving to straighten himself, and to become beautiful. Ironically, or paradoxically, in a humanity where "genitals are beauty" there would be a minimum of "sex" and a maximum of beauty, or Art. This is what Lawrence means, surely. 25.3.30