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Some have literary antecedents. The Mellors Model, for example, takes its name from the randy gamekeeper in Lady Chatterley's Lover. D.H. Lawrence makes no mention of secret panels but, reasons Krotz, "Lady Chatterley must have hung her dress somewhere to avoid telltale wrinkles." The somewhere is a secret compartment that any ordinary gamekeeper can build behind any ordinary coat rack. Other caches are less allusive but more ingenious. As Krotz's book amply diagrams, hiding places can be constructed behind false electric-plug plates, in drains or even around drain pipes. "Make a mysterious apparition of metal...
...reviewed Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1928, no doubt the same letters would have appeared. How long before we accept sex as part of life and rightly a subject...
Burning Outcries. Because Lady Chatterley's shortcomings are so well known, it is possible to enjoy the unexpected virtues of this version. The most substantial improvement is in the gamekeeper Mellors, who is called Parkin here. Mellors is too good to be true, an ex-officer who keeps books on India, Soviet Russia and the atom in his cottage. Parkin is a rough, laconic collier's son who can understand neither his own mean circumstances nor the sources of Connie's passion for him. Lawrence lacked Thomas Hardy's gift for making the inner lives...
During the hullabaloo that accompanied the Lady Chatterley obscenity trial in 1959, it was fashionable to say that the book was not dirty, just pretentious. But Lawrence was attempting "an adjustment in consciousness to the basic physical realities." A tall order that, and one that greatly appealed to the author's radical temperament. Unfortunately, it led him into portentous language and situations, and gives an almost hysterical fervor to his advocacy of relaxed frankness between men and women...
...primrose "poised" in Connie's navel. But descriptions of the woods speak of a lonelier passion and are exquisite examples of an art at least as difficult as writing about sex. If this book does not convince anyone that it should become the accepted version of Lady Chatterley's story, it is at least nothing for Lawrence lovers to be ashamed...