Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence · first published 1900
8% recommend76% neutral16% critical
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence The takeaway that's quickest to explain is that the best things in life are priceless. You might be surprised how few $ you can happily live on.
on “Ask HN: Which non-technology book has influenced you the most and why?” ↗I only read <<Lady Chatterley's Lover>>. It was quite a vivid description of a form of love that is more primitive and instinctive to my taste. I never imagined one can put those feeling into words. Any other recommendations in this similar…
on “The D. H. Lawrence We Forgot” ↗I read Lady Chatterley's Lover at ~15-17, some forty years ago... Really couldn't grok what all the fuss had been about; Felt mostly like "Didn't people back then even know where babies come from?". (Not that there were any babies…
on “The Banning of Joyce's Ulysses” ↗…moral panic (through a combination of government and media) around anime and manga at roughly the same time (or a little after) the crusades against comic books (and broader efforts against such works as Lady Chatterley's Lover) were ongoing in the U.S. and the U.K. However, in regards to Japan, the results broke in the opposite direction. Unlike in the U.S., a translation of Lady Chatterley's Lover was found to be obscene,…
on “Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency (1955)” ↗> Do the same with public libraries, except the new version is kept next to the almost porn books. I haven't actually checked, but I would expect e.g. Naked Came the Stranger, Lolita, and Lady Chatterley's Lover to just be filed under "fiction". I'm not aware of a separate category for "fiction that some people do or once did consider scandalously erotic". There is a category for actually-porn books, "romance",…
on “Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions after purchase” ↗…rights[1] and prison reform whilst advocating vegetarianism and taking a stance against vivisection. His Wikipedia is wild. EM Forster wrote a novel about him, which became the basis for DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.
on “Culture War Politics and the English Language” ↗…to allow it to be printed until the book fell into public domain. Browsing the list of in rem cases in the US turns up quite a few cases where the US actually seized several pornographic books such as Lady Chatterley's Lover, which is perhaps a little more in line with what you were thinking about.
on “Home Libraries Will Save Civilization” ↗…prohibition and censorship is counterproductive and it's much more likely to have the opposite effect of what's intended. Around that time there was much controversy over the publication of D. H. Lawrence's† Lady Chatterley's Lover which was deemed by the Wowser Brigade as obscene. This only had the effect of multiple 'clandestine' copies turning up in the school playground with us boys huddled in small groups reading the 'naughty'…
on “Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions after purchase” ↗…and statistically shown to be dangerous. Regardless of how you feel about this agency's actual mission, that is a good design to keep them from eventually trying to keep you from reading Mein Kampf or Lady Chatterley's Lover or something. (if you're in the United States you also benefit from the first amendment...) > It doesn't take the harmful objects out of the market, so why set this precedent? This also strikes…
on “CEO Craig Zucker on the Demise of Buckyballs” ↗The question is how anyone can draw up a law that leaves art on one side and porn on the other. It's Lady Chatterley's Lover all over again, and to suggest there's no need to be concerned is, I think, you misrepresenting the position. Until this is defined, there's a lot to be concerned about.
on “Fifty Shades of Grey Would Be Banned in UK?” ↗…we got much of the First Amendment obscenity doctrine we have today. Some examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Comstock http://openjurist.org/276/f2d/433/grove-press-inc-v-k-christ... ("'Lady Chatterley's Lover'...has been detained as unmailable by the New York Postmaster and, after a hearing before the Judicial Officer of the Post Office Department and reference to the Postmaster General for final departmental…
on “State Laws That Stop Cities From Installing Fast Internet” ↗…> what of movies that they don't like, > will those be banned? "Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" -- Mervyn Griffith-Jones at the obscenity trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover
on “Britain Moves to Criminalize Reading Extremist Material on the Internet” ↗…the context. "If you ask, “Who should decide which ideas you may hear or read?”, people boggle." Most people don't seem to boggle about porn filters or automatic spam rejection. The books "Ulysses", "Lady Chatterley's Lover", and "Memoirs of Hecate County" were once banned in the US. While I don't agree with those bans, I bring it up to point out that people don't always boggle. "So we ban Mein Kampf." Who is proposing…
on “Freedom of Speech Isn't About Speech” ↗…are OK with your broad generalities, but the thing about criminal law is that it rests on specifics. Justice in one particular case before the courts, not an army of hypothetical "What if?" questions. Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1960 was an example. The Government had just written a law (in 1959) clearly saying you mustn't publish obscene stuff. As a generality this seemed very supportable. In the specifics it struggled, was…
on “Open letter concerning Facebook's proposals to apply end-to-end encryption” ↗"Books were not interesting for them because US didn't censor books" Did for a while: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Chatterley%27s_Lover#Unite... Lady Chatterley's Lover was one of a trio of books (the others being Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill), the ban on which was fought and overturned in court with assistance by publisher Barney Rosset and lawyer Charles Rembar…
on “During Cold War, CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ as a tool to undermine Soviet Union” ↗