Andrew's Reviews > Love among the Haystacks

A surprising range in these six stories from 1929-33, in a 1960 Penguin collection (picked out for 20p in a charity shop!). The title story is pure Lawrence, two sets of male & female bodies to bring to physical union against the odds.But the other stories are disparate & interesting, particularly the long story that brings this pot-pourri to a conclusion with an elegaic treatment of the risen Jesus, who is delineated as 'The Man Who Died'! He consummates his strange 'posthumous' journey by enjoying the toothsome favours of a beatific & lovely priestess of Isis, who sees him as the god, Osiris; he leaves her expecting another divine birth to fade to oblivion.A bearded & dying Lawrence as Christ stretches a thin skein of reality to breaking-point.If you like variety...well, this collection certainly has that!