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called adultery. Adultery is a paradigmatic act in Lawrence, stemming from his own triumphant snatching away of Frieda (some fortuitous allegory here, the name suggesting peace, harmony) from (did it have to be?) Professor Weekley. Lady Chatterley’s Lover is only the most conspicuous adultery in Lawrence. In the Lawrence triangle blood consciousness triumphs over mental consciousness, love over law. Dubin thinks in these terms up to a point. After finally succeeding with Fanny Bick (more allegory-Fanny is obvious; Bick is Yiddish, suggesting bovine), he believes that he “understood Lawrence more fully, his religion of sexuality: a belief in the blood, the flesh, as wiser than the intellect.” Yet after thinking about “blood consciousness” for a while, Dubin remarks, “I can’t say I fully believe in it” (Dubin’s Lives 219). Dubin is, in fact, part of an uncompleted triangle. Rejecting his wife, he cannot accept Fanny as a body-and-Soulmate. Dubin-and Malamud-have reached an impasse, and Dubin does not so much triumph in adultery as flounder.
