Thursday, March 14, 2019
Genius Loci
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), Sea and Sardinia, III ("Cagliari"):
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The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens, and all that we think the real thing will go off with a pop, and we shall be left staring.
