…where you can speak more and I speak less. Well, I mean, I think it's quite an interesting... I mean, I can speak about Lawrence and Lady Chatterley and so on, and the problem of using these words, because the fact that they are taboo words makes them…

…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 life, from 26 to…

…the beginning. His capacity for perception is... I mean, it was a great pleasure and instruction, really, to go for a walk with Lawrence. I mean, the... The way he perceived the world was so intense and exciting. The point is that you must have both.…

…which author as a whole has been... Just tell me a few of the ones that you did find. I don't care much. Well, of course, Lawrence I read a great deal in the 20s. As a very young man, as an undergraduate, I used to read a lot of French novels and…

…enormous gift, doesn't he? Well, 30 years later now, what do you think, or would you care to say, what do you think of Lawrence as a novelist and as a man? Well, I can occasionally reread some of them. I must say, I think he's extraordinarily good. I…

…day. I didn't read the whole of it. That, again, seemed to me very good. And, well, I still, I mean, I was very fond of Lawrence. He was a man I knew him very well in the last four years of his life. I just met him during the First World War…

…really is a great coup, I feel. But this kind of propounder novel that you've been describing, I can see would be illustrated by Lawrence at his best when he's in his short novels. Yes, and I mean, again, some of the long short stories of Lawrence are…

…at his best when he's in his short novels. Yes, and I mean, again, some of the long short stories of Lawrence are quite extraordinary, I think. The vividness, and of course the incredible vividness of the descriptions of nature, these are astounding…

…are quite extraordinary, I think. The vividness, and of course the incredible vividness of the descriptions of nature, these are astounding in Lawrence. You think of Henry James. Were you ever fond of him? I was never very fond of James. He leaves me very…

…beginning you would have said that this fiction had to be related to the Midlands of England and the Cronines but I mean Lawrence demonstrated that it could be related to anything he moved about the world yes, he carried his world with him but he also…