...pleased and elated like a child. His concentration broke, he began to look st her simply and naturally. "What I want is a strange conjunction with you —...single beings: — as the stars balance each other." She looked at him. He was very earnest, and earnestness was always rather ridiculous, commonplace,...

...which is perfectly ourselves can take place in us ... What I want is a strange conjunction with you — not meeting and mingling; — you are quite right:...single beings: — as the stars balance each other' (138, 139). Ursula does not trust him when he drags the stars in. His position is still too insistent...

...Carpenter's idea of mystic conjunction: What I want is a strange conjunction with you" [he tells Ursula] — "not meeting and mingling; you are quite right: —...single beings — as the stars balance each other. [P. 139] I meant two single equal stars balanced in conjunction . . .It is the law of creation. One...

...And she goes deeper: "You don't fully believe yourself what you are saying." He has set a goal, of a "pure balance of two single beings" as "the stars balance each other." If no actual experience can be expected to attain it, it may be only a cynical way of avoiding actual...

...This is what Birkin means when he offers Ursula not the Romantic love for which she craves but rather "an equilibrium, a pure balance of two single beings: — as the stars balance each other." As it stands, this much of Lawrence's thought is quite incomplete. In asserting the separateness of...

...her simply and naturally. "What I want is a strange conjunction with you — " he said quiedy: " — not meeting and mingling; — you are quite right:...balance of two single beings: — as the stars balance 15 each other." She looked at him. He was very earnest, and earnestness was always rather ridiculous,...

...autobiographical Kn kin, who speaks at one point to Ursula of the mystic union he wants to achieve with her: "'What I want is a strange conjunction with you —...single beings: — as the stars balance each other'" (164). Further evidence of Beckett's interest in Lawrence is to be found in Beckett's unpublished first...

...protagonists talk like this: "What I want is a strange conjunction with you — not meeting and mingling — but an equilibrium, a pure balance of two single beings — as the stars balance each other." (WL, 164) This is Lawrence's yearning at best. And at best he sought integration, and a recognition...

...necessity becomes male assertion of power; all else, disaster. Despite his fine visions of lovers in "an equilibrium, a pure balance of two single beings: — as the stars balance each other" (139) and the fights he gets from her, submission lurks behind Birkin's demands of Ursula, and she...

...center or meaning." (David Holbrook, Where DH Lawrence Was Wrong about Woman [London, 1992], p. 222.) with you," he said quietly; "- not meeting and mingling;...equilibrium, a pure balance of two single beings; - äs the stars balance each other." (^ 2 10) Das, was hier von Birkin als Ideal des 'star equilibrium'...