Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (103 page)

“a playground scuffle”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 27.

141
“was placed in the First Class”:
Ibid.

141 Oxford was a good place: Ibid., 28.

144 His father—whose closest friend: Ibid., 30.

147
“a house telephone”:
Aldington,
Lawrence of Arabia, 44.

152
“When… I suddenly went to Oxford”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 41.

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155
“as if he descended”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder, 62.

157
“Quite frankly, for me”:
Knightley and Simpson,
Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 29.

158
At the time he met Richards:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder, 60.

159
His youngest brother, Arnold:
Ibid., 67.

159
“I’m not a boy”:
Ibid., 20.

159
“We could never be bothered”:
Aldington,
Lawrence of Arabia, 36.

160
“He is illuminated from inside”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder, 14.

160
She saw him as a beloved:
Ibid., 64.

161
“worshipped Janet from afar”:
Ibid., 66.

162
His mother vigorously denied:
Aldington,
Lawrence of Arabia, 46.

162
One friend told of Lawrence’s:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 44.

162
Lawrence’s nearly drowning:
Aldington,
Lawrence of Arabia, 48.

162
A famous feat of Lawrence’s:
Ibid., 49.

163
It was also clear to Lawrence:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 44.

166
In Doughty’s opinion:
Ibid., 54.

167
“a lightweight suit”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder, 69.

167
“a revolver”:
Aldington,
Lawrence of Arabia, 62.

171
“From Dan we passed”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 97.

172
“quite cool”:
Ibid., 89.

172
“Nothing in life is more exhilarating”:
Churchill,
Story of the Malakind Field Force, 172.

173
“a person with nothing”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 107.

174 “Sir John does not like”: Ibid., 109.

174
“village elders”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder, 74.

174
The robbery has caused:
Aldington,
Lawrence of Arabia, 76.

175
he apologized for the bloodstain:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder, 74.

176
“a cry (if not from the housetops)”:
Campbell,
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 14.

176
“thinned to the bone”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder, 75.

177
“in no way diminished”:
Ibid.

177
Lawrence did not seem:
Aldington,
Lawrence of Arabia, 68.

177
“took a most brilliant First Class”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 68.

177
busy reading
Petit Jehan: Lawrence,
Home Letters,
10.

178
“a research fellowship”:
Wilson,
Lawrence, 69.

178
“The two occupations fit into one another”:
Ibid.

178
“The dangerous crises”:
Campbell,
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 8.

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181
“a man of action”:
Knightley and Simpson,
Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 20.

181
It comes as no surprise:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder, 102.

182
When Lawrence went up to Jesus College:
Knightley and Simpson,
Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 21.

182
“a cynical and highly-educated baboon”:
Ibid., 20.

182
“a boy of extraordinary”:
Ibid., 30.

183
“the only man I had never”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder, 369.

184
“a dreary and desolate waste”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 71.

186
Lawrence sailed for Beirut:
Ibid., 76.

187
“They were always talking”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 122.

187
“the spiritual side of his character”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder, 77-78.

188
“Lawrence seems to me”:
Ibid., 78.

189
“sit down to it”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 130.

189
“archeological overseer”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 78.

190
“was flagrantly and evidently an exotic”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 137.

190
“Turkish & Greek”:
Ibid.

190
“the Lejah, the lava no-man’s-land”:
Ibid.

193
“admitted to six or seven murders”:
Aldington,
Lawrence of Arabia, 81.

193
“set her before him”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 154.

194
Bell was disappointed:
Wallach,
Desert Queen, 93.

195
“stained [purple] with Tyrian die”:
Aldington,
Lawrence of Arabia, 51.

195
“Can you make room”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 85.

196
“beautifully built and remarkably handsome”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder, 97.

197
“an interesting character”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 173.

198
“I am very well”:
Ibid., 176.

198
“efforts to educate himself”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 95.

199
Apparently impressed by Hogarth’s letters:
Ibid., 92.

200
“I am not enthusiastic about Flecker”:
Sherwood,
No Golden Journey, 47.

202
“Great rumors of war”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 182.

203
Lawrence turned up for digging:
Aldington,
Lawrence of Arabia, 84-85.

203
“was not an Oxonian”:
Ibid., 85.

205
“such as Bedouin sheiks wear”:
Ibid., 192.

205
He seems to have been reading:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder, 101.

208
“essential immaturity”:
Ibid., 85.

208
“frail, pallid, silent”:
Ibid., 81.

208
“when the police tried”:
Lawrence,
Letters from T. E. Lawrence to E. T. Leeds, 43.

209
“explicit promise”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 103.

210
Lawrence was using Dahoum:
Ibid., 104.

211
Those who were closest to Lawrence and Dahoum:
Arnold Lawrence (ed.),
T. E. Lawrence by His Friends, 89.

214
Lawrence notes in a letter home:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 210.

215
“for the foreigner [this country]”:
Ibid., 218.

216
He wrote to England for medical advice:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 107.

216
“a big garden”:
Sherwood,
No Golden Journey, 153.

216
“carelessly flung beneath a tree”:
Ibid., 146.

217
“I feel very little the lack”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 230.

217
He wrote to his youngest brother, Arnold:
Ibid., 226.

219
“Flecker, the admiral at Malta”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder, 85.

219
“gun-running” incident:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 118.

220
Although skeptics about Lawrence:
Graves,
Lawrence and the Arabs, 36.

221
“Buswari and his great enemy”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 254.

222
“running around with guns”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 946.

224
“a place where one eats lotos”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 161.

225
“couldn’t shoot the railway bridge”:
Ibid., 255.

225
“a pleasant, healthy warmth”:
Ibid.

226
Already there had been protests:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 123-124.

227
“a pocket Hercules”:
Lawrence to Edward Marsh, June 10, 1927. Lawrence,
Letters,
Garnett (ed.), 521.

228
By the end of August:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 126.

228
“the most beautiful town”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 441.

230
“You must not think of Ned”:
Ibid., 447.

230
“was still in Ireland”:
Ibid., 256.