…episode which I felt to have the same parable-like quality as these other two. John Morgan wondered about the influence of D.H. Lawrence on Huxley, and that led, as you'll hear, to a general discussion of changed attitudes towards sex. If I may turn…

…work took a more serious turn, became more concerned with society. Did this have anything to do with your friendship with D.H. Lawrence? No, I don't think so, exactly. I mean, Lawrence's concern with society was a concern with a kind of hypothetical…

…there And in the early years in Italy, when you first began writing, when you were associated with John Middleton Murray, D.H. Lawrence, and others, I presume there was a common interest that brought such persons together. Well, I worked, you see, before…

…time. I mean, all the Bloomsbury people like Maynard Keynes and Clive Bell and Vanessa and Virginia Woolf, Russell I met then and D.H. Lawrence and this was a sort of liberal education to me and Roger Fry was very kind to me and from whom I certainly…

…sewage systems and proper municipal government and things like that, all of which are wholly to the good. Won't you say something about D.H. Lawrence? I met Lawrence during the war, and of course I knew him best later on in the last four years of his…