Etruscan Places

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D. H. Lawrence. Etruscan Places

Etruscan Places

Table of Contents

1--CERVETERI

2--TARQUINIA

3--THE PAINTED TOMBS OF TARQUINIA - 1

4--THE PAINTED TOMBS OF TARQUINIA - 2

5--VULCI

6--VOLTERRA

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D. H. Lawrence

Published by Good Press, 2021

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However, trust an Englishman and a modern for wanting to turn the tall, proud, sparky, dare-devil asphodel into the modest daffodil! I believe we don't like the asphodel because we don't like anything proud and sparky. The myrtle opens her blossoms in just the same way as the asphodel, explosively, throwing out the sparks of her stamens. And I believe it was just this that the Greeks saw. They were that way themselves.

However, this is all on the way to the tombs: which lie ahead, mushroom-shaped mounds of grass, great mushroom-shaped mounds, along the edge of the ravine. When I say ravine, don't expect a sort of Grand Canyon. Just a modest, Italian sort of ravine-gully, that you could almost jump down.

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