Women in Love by D H Lawrence Chapter 4 Page 12

‘Perhaps there WAS an unconscious will behind it,’ said Ursula. ‘This playing at killing has some primitive DESIRE for killing in it, don’t you think?’

‘Desire!’ said Gudrun, coldly, stiffening a little. ‘I can’t see that they were even playing at killing. I suppose one boy said to the other, “You look down the barrel while I pull the trigger, and see what happens.” It seems to me the purest form of accident.’

‘No,’ said Ursula. ‘I couldn’t pull the trigger of the emptiest gun in the world, not if some-one were looking down the barrel. One instinctively doesn’t do it — one can’t.’

Gudrun was