St. Mawr by D.H. Lawrence: A young, unhappily married socialite becomes obsessed with a stubborn, skittish, and occasionally violent stallion named St. Mawr. She appreciates his abundant wildness, which extends to all wild animals—contrasting it against the sterile, cowardly, gossip-and-wealth obsessed lives of everyone around her.
First Sentence:
“Lou Witt had had her own way so long that by the age of twenty-five she didn't know where she was.”
“Most men have a deadness in them which frightens me...Why can't men get their life straight, like St. Mawr? Why can't they think quick?...if we could get our lives straight from the source, as the animals do, and still be ourselves...You've no idea how men just tire me out...It's the animal in them has gone perverse, or cringing, or humble, or domesticated, like dogs...I don't know one single man who is a proud living animal...They're all tame dogs, with human masters.”
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