Aaron’s Rod

novel by Lawrence

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Aaron’s Rod, novel by D.H. Lawrence, published in 1922. Lawrence constructed a parallel between the power that was miraculously manifested in the blossoming rod wielded by the biblical figure Aaron and the effect of the flute played by Aaron Sisson, the novel’s protagonist. Sisson, who works in a coal mine, is an amateur flutist who abandons his wife and the life he has known to travel and try to make a living as a flutist.

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