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and then returning to London, D.H. Lawrence held a dinner party at the Cafe Royal (which he called "The Last Supper"). There he tried to recruit friends to move to Taos in order "to create a utopian society he called 'Rananim'", an idea he had first proposed in a letter of 3 January 1915. While
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D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico: "The Time is Different There"
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