Conference thebay::joyoflex

936.0. "Literary Classics" by SSDEVO::EGGERS (Anybody can fly with an engine.) Fri Dec 13 1991 13:36

    It's Friday, the 13th, and somehow this seems appropriate to the
    afternoon:



   The following review of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D.  H.
   Lawrence appeared in the magazine FIELD AND STREAM in 1959.


        Although written many years ago, "Lady Chatterley's Lover" has
        just been reissued by Grove Press, and this pictorial account
        of the day-to-day life of an English gamekeeper is full of
        considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains
        many passages on pheasant-raising, the apprehending of
        poachers, ways to control vermin, and other chores and duties
        of the professional gamekeeper.

        Unfortunately, one is obliged to wade through many pages of
        extraneous material in order to discover and savor these
        sidelights on the management of a Midland shooting estate, and
        in this reviewer's opinion the book cannot take the place of
        J.  Miller's "Practical Gamekeeping."

    Then there was the BBC production on the Italian Spaghetti Harvest.

    Now why would the day-to-day life of an English gamekeeper be full
    of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers?
    
    I hardly think bridge, chess, go, Othello, Rubik's cube, and
    Rubik's dodecahedron would interest outdoor-minded readers.
    
    Although if pressured, I can imagine some games that would be
    interesting to play outdoors if a suitable setting can be found.

    As far as chess goes, there is always the Alice in Wonderland version.
    That should interest outdoor-minded readers.  Hmmm.  I wonder why
    Field and Stream has never had a review of AiW.

    I never did remember which one was which.	Thanks.