one wrote to them, hoping that they would join them in denying that "lady chatter les waser -- chatterly'sover" obscene. >> we walked across without giving it a second thought. at the world was changing. this trial help cement that change. >> they said that it was the their erotic more pornographic. from what i knew of the author, there was no erotic or pornographic in tension in his mind. >> my memory of it was dull. in certain places pretentious. lawrence had very little literary gifts. >> and i would love to help penguin. i do not see how. i have not read the book. >> the trial, like the novel, is famous or notorious for its high count of four-letter words. today, you would get that in an hour with this celebrity chef. they would say that the true legacy to us is a more vulgar culture. >> the trial was perhaps a necessary thing. the bottled up behavior of the 1950's, the death penalty, the sending of homosexuals to jail, the persecution of women for having abortions. this dark, distasteful, inhumane era gradually came to an end in the 1960's. >> lawrence has had a strange legacy really.