D.H.Lawrence's interesting genius

"Take actual fire.--It will bore you. Do you want to hear?"
"Go on."


"This is what I was taught. The true fire is invisible. Flame, and the red fire we see burning, has its back to us. It is running away from us.--Does that mean anything to you?"
"Yes."
"Well then, the yellowness of sunshine--light itself--that is only the glancing aside of the real original fire. You know that is true. There would be no light if there were no refraction, no bits of dust and stuff to turn the dark fire into visibility.--You know that too.--And the true sunbeams coming towards us flow darkly, a moving darkness of the genuine fire. The sun is dark, the sunshine flowing to us is dark. And light is only the inside-out of it all, the lining, and the yellow beams are only the turning away of the sun's directness that was coming to us.--Does that interest you at all?"
"Yes," she said dubiously.
"Well, we've got the world inside out. The true living world of fire is dark, throbbing, darker than blood. Our luminous world that we go by is only the white lining of this."

.....so? dubiously is the awesomest word ever, and discussions of light fascinate me. Not that I've got any idea what he's on about lol. :D