<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=364095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>How Beastly the Bourgeois Is</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How beastly the bourgeois is<br>especially the male of the species--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Presentable, eminently presentable--<br>shall I make you a present of him?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Isn't he handsome? Isn't he healthy? Isn't he a fine specimen?<br>Doesn't he look the fresh clean Englishman, outside?<br>Isn't it God's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day<br>after partridges, or a little rubber ball?<br>wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the<br>thing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, but wait!<br>Let him meet a new emotion, let him be faced with another<br>man's need,<br>let him come home to a bit of moral difficulty, let life<br>face him with a new demand on his understanding<br>and then watch him go soggy, like a wet meringue.<br>Watch him turn into a mess, either a fool or a bully.<br>Just watch the display of him, confronted with a new<br>demand on his intelligence,<br>a new life-demand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How beastly the bourgeois is<br>especially the male of the species--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nicely groomed, like a mushroom<br>standing there so sleek and erect and eyeable--<br>and like a fungus, living on the remains of a bygone life<br>sucking his life out of the dead leaves of greater life<br>than his own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And even so, he's stale, he's been there too long.<br>Touch him, and you'll find he's all gone inside<br>just like an old mushroom, all wormy inside, and hollow<br>under a smooth skin and an upright appearance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Full of seething, wormy, hollow feelings<br>rather nasty--<br>How beastly the bourgeois is!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Standing in their thousands, these appearances, in damp<br>England<br>what a pity they can't all be kicked over<br>like sickening toadstools, and left to melt back, swiftly<br>into the soil of England.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Herbert+Lawrence">David Herbert Lawrence</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=364095" data-title="How Beastly the Bourgeois Is de David Herbert Lawrence" data-description="How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species-- Presentable, eminently presentable-- shall I make you a present of him? Isn't he handsome? Isn't he healthy? Isn't he a fine specimen? Doesn't he look the fresh clean Englishman, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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