When Lawrence says that the human being, to the Etruscan, was a bull or a ram, a bird or a serpent, a lion or a deer, a leopard or a lamb; and when he talks about these oppositions as a clash that is a form of unison (67); and when he talks about the suggestive edges of Etruscan art and how the represented bodies of things surge from a center to the surface atmosphere; and how, where each thing was related vitally to strange, other things (68); and how there is a swirling mystery where all creatures are a potential of a myriad consciousness (69) --he culminates not only his ideas about Italy and its people, but about life: for here, at the end of Etruscan Places, when he talks about all life emerging out of the "unbroken circle" (69), a reader is compelled to make reference to Schopenhauer, Jung, and Bakhtin.
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