On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Kevin Burton Smith wrote:
> I've seen this phrase bandied about a lot lately.
For the benefit of
> those of us who aren't on a one-name basis with
every literary light
> who ever hung up a shingle, which Lawrence came up
with the phrase,
> and what's the context? And what was the actual
city?
It has to do with more people than just D.H. Lawrence and
really goes back to the Industrial and French Revolutions and
the Romantic philosophy of Rousseau, Coleridge, Wordsworth
and Herder and all those German guys. William Blake wrote
about "the satanic mills" meaning London's factories and
mines around it. What I was saying about Hammett's and
Lovecraft's relationship to all this was that they break the
dichotomy by saying that even the healing nature has been
damaged. The nature is all the same satanic mill.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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