• For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

    D. H. Lawrence: For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.
    D. H. Lawrence (2008). “The Rainbow”, p.172, OUP Oxford