How aptly he puts it

"If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily on twenty-five shillings. If the men wore scarlet trousers, like I said, they wouldn't think so much of money: if they could dance and hop and skip and sing and swagger and be handsome, they could do with very little cash. And amuse the women themselves, and be amused by the women. They ought to learn to be naked and handsome, and to sing in a mass and dance the old group dances, and carve the stools they sit on, and embroider their own emblems. Then they wouldn't need money. And that's the only way to solve the industrial problem: train the people to be able to live, and live in handsomeness, without needing to spend. But you can't do it. They're all one-track minds nowadays. Whereas the mass of people oughtn't even to try to think, because they can't!"

Another excerpt from Lady Chatterley's Lover, which I have finished. I loved it. I found the emotions portrayed very poignant, very complicated, and very real. No hiding, no glossing over, emotions as they are, raw. And a lot of observations from that era too, after WW1, the effects of industrialization, the deterioration of the upper class, etc.

Ah so. What's next?