tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8226585002775487749.post3697423578586852220..comments2008-08-19T23:14:32.876-07:00Comments on Late-Imperial Literary London: Just a wee thoughtSnehalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01010164012306770474noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8226585002775487749.post-6596766238421373082008-07-23T16:31:00.000-07:002008-07-23T16:31:00.000-07:00I saw Birkin as Lawrence's mouthpiece in the novel...I saw Birkin as Lawrence's mouthpiece in the novel. He's the one who sets out Lawrence's philosophy on love, sex, women, social change, industrialization, etc. He also frequently expresses the anti-humanist philosophy of the modernists in his diatribes against mankind. In the chapter "In the Train" he talks about it: "Let mankind pass away--time it did. The creative utterances will not cease, they will only be there. Humanity doesn't embody the utterance of the incomprehensible any more. Humanity is a dead letter. There will be an new embodiment. Let humanity disappear as quick as possible." He returns to this theme several more times and Gudren also expresses it at one point.Richard Rossihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16144316321730070148noreply@blogger.com