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The other day I took a drive over to Toby Pond and looked in at the house where I’d spent six months during the Covid lockdown. My favorite room there was a little library. It has two steep book-lined walls and high windows that give plenty of light for reading. With nothing better to do, I pulled down Lady Chatterly’s Lover<\/a><\/em>. Having read it many years ago, I had failed to appreciate it. This time it bowled me over. Here’s a small excerpt, which offers a taste of one of the novel’s major themes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The “bone-bringers” is a reference to the industrialists and financiers of the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, tycoons like Rockefeller and Ford, bankers like Rothschild and J.P. Morgan, for whom Lawrence had nothing but contempt. It wouldn’t be a stretch to think of the bone-bringers now as our not-so-silent 21st-century, showier-than-thou, cyberworld titans like Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and their ilk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this is the room where I pulled the book off the shelf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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