The Magnificence of the Night talks about a night of love, the lyric is a passage from Women in love by David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1030).
"It is probably in this view of sex that there He his great achievement and innovation. It also accounts for the profound influence he had on the modern novel, which was a moral influence rather than an artistic one, since he was able to add new moral dignity to such an important aspect of human life." (R. M. Mingazzini L. Salmoiraghi A Mirror ofthe Times Morano Editore)
The car stopped.
"We will stay here ", he saia, "andpuf out the lights. "
He extinguished the lamps at once, and it was pure night, with shadows oftrees like realities ofother nightly being. He threw a rug on to the bracken, and they sat in stillness and mindless silence. There werefaint soundsfrom the wood, but no disturbance, no possible disturbance, the world was under a strange ban, a new mystery had supervened.
They threw offtheir clothes, and he gathered her to him, andfound her, found the pure lambent reality of her for ever invisible flesh.
Quenched, inhuman, his fingers upon her unrevealed nudity were thefìngers of silence upon silence, the body ofmysterious night upon the body ofmysterious night. |
