![]() ![]() “The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, it can’t wake up.” His experiences during the First World War signalled to him that the world is sailing towards a great debacle. Lawrence wanted a revolution “not in the name of money, power and filth, but of life”. Lawrence wrote: “The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, it can’t wake up.”(shutterstock)īorn on Septemin Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, the ideas that Lawrence postulated during the latter part of his career seem so pertinent to our age that it is almost astonishing that these are the thoughts of the man who breathed his last, 87 years ago. ![]() DH Lawrence’s call for “a new world - far older than the new one”, seems all the more relevant in the modern age - considering the turbulent world we reside in today, and the crisis of our abhorrent culture, where violence is widespread and humanity is at loss. ![]()
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