Ours is essentially a tragic age

Dear Editor,

I hope these lines from Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence provide some hope to many Guyanese who have to suffer from the ignorance that divisive politics have wrought in the world.

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”

Yours faithfully,

Neil Alli