“Her lungs felt thick and slow, her mind dissolved, she felt she could cling like a bat in the long swoon of the crannied, underword darkness. Cling like a bat and sway for ever swooning in the draughts of the darkness ---”

D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence - “Her lungs felt thick and slow, her...” 1

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