more D. H. Lawrence

[stephgrl]

The English are so Nice!
The English are so nice
so awfully nice
they're the nicest people in the world.
And what's more, they're very nice about being nice
about your being nice as well!
If you're not nice, they soon make you feel it.

Americans and French and Germans and so on
they're all very well
but they're not really nice, you know.
They're not nice in our sense of the word, are they now?

That's why on doesn't have to take them seriously.
We must be nice to them, of course,
of course, naturally-
But it doesn't really matter what you say to them,
they don't really understand-
you can just say anything to them:
be nice, you know, just be nice-
but you must never take them seriously, they wouldn't understand
just be nice, you know! oh, fairly nice,
not too nice of course, they take advantage-
but nice enough, just nice enough
to let  them feel they're not quite as nice as they might be.

To women, As far As I'm Concerned
The feelings I don't have I don't have.
The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have.
The feelings you  say you have, you don't have.
The feelings you would like us both to have, we
       neither of us have.
The feelings people ought to have, they never have.
If people say they've got feelings, you may be pretty
       sure they haven't got them.

So if you want either of us to feel anything at all
you'd better abandon all idea of feelings altogether.