摘要：A letter written in June 1910 indicates that Lawrence had briefly considered entitling his first novel “Tendrils.” Of course every reader can choose to read this in his or her own way.Perhaps the most productive way to read it is as a two-faced symbol.On the one hand, referring as it does to the tendrils that “George is always putting forth […] for things that are out of reach” (L i.167), it endows George Saxton with the instinctive persistency and the essential will-to-live of nature, for...
