wondering wtf "mucous paper" is...

something about civilization that D. H. Lawrence was familiar with, apparently.

"Like the boyz of the hood, as human beings we need direct natural experiences; we require fully activated senses in order to feel fully alive. Twenty-first-century Western culture accepts the view that because of omnipresent technology we are awash in data. But in this information age, vital information is missing. Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing below the “transparent mucous-paper in which the world like a bon-bon is wrapped so carefully that we can never get at it,” as D.H. Lawrenceⁱ put it, in a relatively obscure but extraordinary description of his own awakening to nature's sensory gift."

--Richard Louv, A Life of the Senses

iD.H. Lawrence: David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885-1930), English author, essayist, and literary critic.

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"This is New Mexico wrapped in the absolutely hygienic and shiny mucous-paper of our trite civilization."

http://lacasadetowanda.blogspot.com/2008/02/d-h-lawerence.html 

"The know-it-all state of mind is just the result of being outside the mucous-paper wrapping of civilization."

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2011/06/26/manvotional-the-know-it-all-state-of-mind/