Apocalypse

Apocalypse is a kind of last testament, a last effort to make himself understood....[It] is essentially a book of hope and life, although it condemns so completely all our contemporary ways of living. "From the point of view of scholars Lawrence's book may be quite worthless as an interpretation of the Book of Revelation. That is neither here nor there....Apocalypse interest me not as the revelation of John of Patmos, but as the revelation of Lawrence. The things he says by the way are more valuable than the interpretation....I belive that Apocalypse perfectly round off the long series of Lawrence's writings, is a splendid valediction. "The remarkable thing is that a book by a dying man should contain so much energy, physical energy .... The rich passion, the lovely poetic sensual imagination are a little muted, because this differs from nearly all Lawrence's other books. It is a work of exposition rather than of creation, though it is created; it is an attempt to explain his beliefs, rather than to embody them in a work of art. But it is a living book. And it is not about death, but about life." From the Introduction by Richard Aldington.