Burning Man, page 52
145 ‘How many infernos’: The Lost Girl, p. 40
PURGATORY: PART TWO
1 ‘I always remember’: Memoir, p. 19
2 ‘always loved’: Memoir, p. 20
3 ‘Perhaps if I had missed it’: Memoir, p 21
4 ‘a dirty little cart’: ‘Holy Week at Monte Cassino’, p. 14
5 ‘We twisted up and up the wild hillside’: Memoir, p. 21
6 ‘rather like a woman who’: Memoir, pp. 21–2
7 ‘very short of money … one’s college mates’: Memoir, pp. 21–3
8 ‘charming and elegant’: Memoir, p. 23
9 ‘Isn’t it wonderful!’: Memoir, p. 23
10 ‘I always wonder what the secrets can be … refectory’: Memoir, pp. 24–5
11 lay brother ‘with a bulging forehead … cornflowers’: Memoir, pp. 25–6
12 ‘He showed me a wonderful photograph’: Memoir, p. 27
13 ‘the farm cluster … child of the present’: Memoir, p. 28
14 ‘so strange’: Memoir, p. 28
15 ‘Roads … straight as judgment’: Memoir, p. 30
16 ‘nobly animal, nobly spiritual … soul and body’: John Ruskin, Modern Painters, vol. 5 (J. Wiley & Son, 1866), p. 321
17 ‘I could not bear it’: Memoir, p. 30
18 ‘And what was the abyss, then?’: Memoir, pp. 31–2
19 ‘rather raggedly typed out’: Memoir, p. 31
20 ‘I was informed that a private soldier’: Memoirs of the Foreign Legion by M.M., pp. 219–21, p. 278
21 ‘in the red trousers and blue coat’: Memoir, p. 77
22 ‘murderer’: Memoirs of the Foreign Legion, p. 129
23 ‘John Smith’: Memoirs of the Foreign Legion, p. 130
24 ‘it was a German regiment’: Memoirs of the Foreign Legion, p. 130
25 ‘In addition to the filth’: Memoirs of the Foreign Legion, p. 261
26 ‘No one is going to believe’: Memoirs of the Foreign Legion, pp. 198–9
27 ‘Well, dearie, where is your protector today?’: Maurice Magnus, Dregs: Experiences of an American in the Foreign Legion, in Memoir of Maurice Magnus, ed. Keith Cushman, p. 141
28 ‘I’ve given chapter and verse’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 115
29 ‘less vague and diffuse’: Maurice Magnus to Norman Douglas. ‘Lawrence, who had read it when he visited me, considered it good and told me to rewrite the five last chapters and finish it, since it was so nearly finished … and he would get me a publisher.’ Norman Douglas Collection
30 ‘to being a scoundrel, thief, forger’: Memoir, p. 78
31 ‘crying – crying, crying’: Memoir, p. 32
32 ‘there speaks the first consciousness’: Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, p. 20
33 ‘gnarled bough’: Memoir, p. 32
34 ‘The monks keep … turns to nothing’: Memoir, p. 33
35 ‘They talk about love … the railway’: Memoir, pp. 34–7
36 ‘I feel one comes unstuck from England’: Letters, 19 March 1920
37 ‘I think one’s got to go through’: Memoir, p. 37
38 ‘He seemed to understand … never left him for long’: Memoir, p. 38
39 ‘nothing is so hateful as the self one has left’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘A Modern Lover’, in The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories (Penguin, 1950), p. 230
40 ‘wide old paved path’: Memoir, p. 39
41 ‘felt that again’: Memoir, p. 40
42 ‘We thought the old times’: Movements in European History, p. 260
43 ‘gossipy, villa-stricken’: Triumph to Exile, p. 556
44 ‘a good on-the-brink’ feel: Letters, 25 March 1920
45 ‘ledged so awfully above the dawn’: D. H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia, in D. H. Lawrence and Italy: Sketches from Etruscan Places, Sea and Sardinia, Twilight in Italy, ed. Simonetta de Filippis et al. (Penguin, 2007), p. 8
46 ‘witch-like’: Sea and Sardinia, p. 10
47 ‘Here one feels’: Letters, 31 March 1920
48 that bloomed for only a day: Letters, 2 March 1921
49 ‘a splendour like trumpets’: Memoir, p. 42
50 ‘want to do a satire’: Letters, 6 February 1920
51 ‘been in the musical-hall line’: The Lost Girl, p. 97
52 ‘small felt hats … too impossible’: The Lost Girl, pp. 99–111
53 ‘must have a good hotel’: The Lost Girl, p. 137
54 so ‘bad’ it ‘ought not to be allowed … on the prowl’: A Composite Biography, vol. 2, p. 52
55 ‘He gave the slight’: The Lost Girl, p. 198
56 ‘Can you believe’: The Lost Girl, p. 158
57 ‘splendid gestures’: Sea and Sardinia, p. 115
58 ‘coming out on the top … lost utterly’: The Lost Girl, pp. 332–42
59 ‘live in this part of the world at all’: The Lost Girl, p. 326
60 ‘not one memorable word’: A Composite Biography, vol. 2, p. 52
61 ‘A terrible thing has happened … feeling kind’: Memoir, pp. 42–7
62 ‘Whatever do you pick up’: Memoir, p. 46
63 ‘Is it my duty to look after this man’: ‘Not I, But the Wind…’, p. 99
64 ‘But Magnus, there isn’t a room for you in the house’: Memoir, p. 46
65 without ‘meaning or purpose’: ‘Not I, But the Wind…’, p. 99
66 ‘She, the bitch’: Maurice Magnus to Norman Douglas, 9 May 1920, Norman Douglas Collection,
67 ‘there’s an end to me at the monastery … humble’: Memoir, pp. 50–1
68 ‘Lawrence heard my tale’: Maurice Magnus to Norman Douglas, 9 May 1920, Norman Douglas collection
69 ‘It was final’: Memoir, p. 53
70 ‘What good to me … were these few pounds?… She looked like nails’: Maurice Magnus to Norman Douglas, 9 May 1920, Norman Douglas Collection
71 ‘my hotel bill ate up every cent I got’: Maurice Magnus to Norman Douglas, 9 May 1920, Norman Douglas Collection
72 ‘Ah, I breathed free now he had gone’: Memoir, p. 61
73 ‘Dear Lawrence’: Memoir, p. 62
74 ‘Well, here was a blow!’: Memoir, pp. 62–3
75 ‘like the grandest gentleman’: Memoir, p. 65
76 ‘Yes, he passed all right’: Memoir, p. 67
77 ‘bone-dry’, ‘bath-brick’: Memoir, p. 69
78 ‘on the glittering mud’: Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections (HarperCollins, 1998), p. 45
79 ‘I believe I should deserve the reproach’: Maurice Magnus, 22 October 1920, Lawrence Manuscripts Collection, University of Nottingham Library
80 ‘What the hell will you do in Morocco’: Norman Douglas to Maurice Magnus, 29 October 1920, Norman Douglas Collection
81 ‘shut up in that beastly island’: Memoir, p. 70
82 ‘seized him, stood him’: Movements in European History, p. 263
83 ‘shrill, penetrating, unforgettable voices’: A Composite Biography, vol. 1, p. 497
84 ‘It’s no good … And so to bed’: Triumph to Exile, pp. 601–3
85 ‘spinning of sky winds’: ‘The Poetry of the Present’, p. 79
86 ‘no rhythm which returns’: ‘The Poetry of the Present’, p. 80
87 ‘in ourselves spontaneous’: ‘The Poetry of the Present’, p. 81
88 ‘The world seemed to stand still for me’: Memoir, p. 76
89 ‘a huge farce wrapped up in mystery’: Memoir, p. 72
90 ‘I leave it to you’: Memoir, p. 74
91 ‘I heard … the other day’: Letters, 16 November 1920
92 ‘I haven’t any energy left’: Maurice Magnus to Norman Douglas, 2 October 1920, Norman Douglas Collection
93 ‘Don’t worry about Lawrence writing nasty’: Maurice Magnus to Norman Douglas, 28 October 1920, Norman Douglas Collection
94 ‘very handsome, beautiful rather … flowing together’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘Il Duro’, in Twilight in Italy and Other Essays, p. 175
95 ‘Comes over one an absolute necessity to move’: Sea and Sardinia, p. 7
96 ‘But why in the name of heaven’: Sea and Sardinia, p. 48
97 ‘a naked town rising steep … the Inferno’: Sea and Sardinia, pp. 53–61
98 ‘The question is, shall we go on?’: Sea and Sardinia, p. 61
99 ‘On we rush’: Sea and Sardinia, p. 90
100 ‘Life was not … only a process’: Sea and Sardinia, p. 117
101 ‘One realises, with horror’: Sea and Sardinia, p. 63
102 ‘Why, there is the monastery’: Sea and Sardinia, p. 172
103 ‘Italy has given me back’: Sea and Sardinia, p. 117
104 ‘Superficially there is something alike in them’: New Statesman, 5 May 1923
105 ‘in his low sonorous voice’: A Composite Biography, vol. 2, pp. 58–9
106 ‘A new place’: Aaron’s Rod, p. 103
107 ‘had fallen into country house parties … out of the window’: Aaron’s Rod, pp. 134, 142, 149
108 ‘astonishment … grievance to him’: Looking Back, p. 286
109 ‘hovering … jumbled, entangled hills’: Aaron’s Rod, pp. 148–57
110 ‘the long slim neck of the Palazzo Vecchio’: Aaron’s Rod, p. 211
111 ‘looked and looked’: Aaron’s Rod, p. 212
112 ‘And he never passed through’: Aaron’s Rod, p. 212
113 ‘a gleam almost of happiness … unspeakably thankful’: Aaron’s Rod, pp. 227–64
114 ‘the last of my serious English novels’: Triumph to Exile, p. 673
115 ‘The man’s spirit has gone out of the world’: Aaron’s Rod, p. 101
116 ‘wicked whimsicality … presence’: Aaron’s Rod, p. 218
117 ‘They’ve got the start of us’: Aaron’s Rod, p. 244
118 ‘caught the façade’: Aaron’s Rod, p. 232
119 ‘Little Mee’: Aaron’s Rod, p. 217
120 ‘being by oneself’: Aaron’s Rod, p. 166
121 ‘a black rod of power’: Aaron’s Rod, p. 258
122 ‘Flowers with good roots’: Aaron’s Rod, p. 232
123 ‘water-lilies twisted round my hat’: Letters, 30 January 1915
124 ‘He was staying in a poorish hotel’: Rebecca West, Ending in Earnest: A Literary Log (Doubleday, 1931), pp. 266–8
125 ‘five hundred pages of’: The Rainbow and Women in Love – A Case Book, ed. Colin C. Clarke (Aurora Publishers, 1969), p. 68
126 ‘Why will men have theories about women?’: E. M. Forster, A Room with a View (Penguin, 2006), p. 218
127 ‘his second self’: Aaron’s Rod, p. 286
PURGATORY: PART THREE
1 ‘admirable and tranquil’: Ernst Robert Curtius, English Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, trans. Willard R. Trask (Princeton University Press, 1953), p. 357
2 ‘I could … by giving half my money’: Memoir, p. 76
3 ‘no authority’: Louise Wright, ‘Disputed Dregs: D. H. Lawrence and the Publication of Maurice Magnus’s Memoirs of the Foreign Legion’, Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies (1996), p. 58
4 ‘a dead dog’: Letters, 10 November 1921
5 ‘lovely monuments of our European past’: ‘Foreword to Studies in Classic American Literature’ (1920), in Studies in Classic American Literature, p. 384
6 it ‘was the dark country’: Van Wyck Brooks, ‘The American Scene: General Thoughts on Henry James and America’, The Dial, vol. 75 (July 1923)
7 ‘the flower of art blooms’: Henry James, Hawthorne (Macmillan, 1887), p. 3
8 ‘whole tree of life’: Letters, 26 October 1915
9 ‘display the role of the imagination’: William Wasserstrom, The Time of the Dial (Syracuse University Press, 1963), p. 2
10 ‘two stories (or somethings)’: Nicholas Joost and Alvin Sullivan, D. H. Lawrence and The Dial (Southern Illinois University Press, 1970), p. 9
11 ‘Nowadays I depend almost entirely’: Letters, 10 November 1921
12 ‘real American book’: epilogue to the American edition of Fantasia of the Unconscious (Thomas Seltzer, 1922)
13 ‘It is exactly two years’: Memoir, p. 76
14 ‘stone-cold to this pink-faced … lower classes’: these remarks about Magnus’s homosexuality were edited out of Lawrence’s introduction to the Memoirs of the Foreign Legion by M.M. (1924) and can be found in Memoir of Maurice Magnus, ed. Keith Cushman, pp. 93–4
15 ‘Let him die and be thrice dead’: edited out of the 1924 introduction and found in Memoir of Maurice Magnus, ed. Cushman, p. 95.
16 ‘littérateur’: Memoir, p. 78
17 ‘expurgated’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 115
18 ‘I like him for that … consciousness’: Memoir, pp. 80–1
19 ‘Apparently the shades of Magnus’: Letters, 20 December 1921
20 ‘Damn the Foreign Legion’: Norman Douglas to D. H. Lawrence, 26 December 1921, D. H. Lawrence archive, University of Nottingham
21 ‘Lawrence’s memoir … is sure to be full of bias’: Norman Douglas to Grant Richards, 6 February 1922, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin
22 ‘All this is awkward’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 120
23 ‘the novelist’s touch in biography’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 118
24 ‘He never borrowed a hundred’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 117
25 ‘what Lawrence wrote’: Richard Aldington, introduction to D. H. Lawrence, Apocalypse (Penguin, 1974), p. xiii
26 270 satire of him in Aaron’s Rod: Richard Aldington, Pinorman: Personal Recollections of Norman Douglas, Pino Orioli and Charles Prentice (William Heinemann, 1954), p. 185
27 ‘spiteful observations’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 125
28 ‘men cannot live’: Norman Douglas, South Wind (Secker & Warburg, 1947), p. 153
29 ‘I like to taste my friends’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 108
30 ‘Let us examine this Siren-loving monster’: Norman Douglas, Siren Land (Martin Secker, 1929), p. 71
31 ‘The news of his arrival’: Norman Douglas, p. 314
32 ‘Rather a mess in here’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 113
33 ‘admirable’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 111
34 ‘bad breeding … age of eunuchs’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 125
35 ‘transition state is that of a girl’: Norman Douglas, p. 334
36 ‘Lawrence is all wrong about my room’: Norman Douglas, p. 334
37 ‘a masterpiece of unconscious’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 108
38 ‘Every place has its genius’: Norman Douglas, Old Calabria (Martin Secker, 1920), p. 1
39 ‘reader of a good travel-book’: Norman Douglas, Experiments: A Miscellany (Chapman & Hall, 1925), p. 13
40 ‘It is time that I said a word’: Memoir of Maurice Magnus, ed. Cushman, pp. 135–7
41 ‘I induced Lawrence to’: Looking Back, pp. 288–9
PARADISE: PART ONE
1 ‘November of the year 1916’: this fragment of an untitled novel was first published in The Princess and Other Stories, ed. Keith Sagar (Penguin, 1972) under the name ‘The Wilful Woman’. The edition used here is St Mawr and Other Stories, ed. Brian Finney (Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 199–203
