I am a fan of D.H. Lawrence, British author, born 1885, died 1930. During his short life he wrote a mountain of novels, essays, book reviews, some of the world's best travel writing, and poetry. If the name D.H. Lawrence is mentioned, people roll their eyes and say that he was a "dirty writer" because of the sexually explicit novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.
I am a quiet person and I end up keeping a lot of my opinions to myself; I don't want to be considered "boring," and I don't want to "piss people off." However, if I want to be a good writer I know that I have to learn how to communicate my ideas; hence, "windfall."
Lady Chatterley's Lover is not about sex; it is the best anti-war and anti-establishment novel ever written. Lawrence grew up in the coal mining region around Nottingham; his father was a miner. Lawrence, a gentle boy and a sensitive young man who loved all of nature, watched big holes being drilled into the earth, listened to the screeching, grating sounds of the mining machinery, saw his father drag himself home from the mines at night, covered with a thick layer of coal-dust, brutalized.
The coal mines were "the establishment" in the mind of a boy born in 1885 in Nottingham.
World War I brought about events that proved shattering for Lawrence and his friends. War was no different then as it is now; the technology developed for killing people became more sophisticated as time moved on, that is all.
The love-making in Lady Chatterley's Lover is the language of healing, warmth, communication, belonging, and most of all, a language of revolt against the destructive forces that conspired to rob men and women of their humanity.