— T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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— T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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T.E. Lawrence to Charlotte Shaw
The prayer of repetition serves to whet the appetite of the soul, stilling the fretful mind, offering an ever-clearer perception of what is desired most, the untamed and fiercely loving God of the desert. But even as this desire is heightened, the actual possibility of its being fulfilled is diminished.
The desert makes it very plain that a God of awesome and elusive grandeur cannot be had. The God of wilderness lies beyond human control, beyond acquisition. Yet the desert lover continues to beat on the distant heart of God with the slow, repetitive word of his prayer. The word or phrase is transformed into an arrow of steel, says Carlo Carretto, and it beats again and again against God's thick cloud of unknowing. The fourteenth-century mystic who first employed this image knew the subtle truth that God longs to be feverishly sought, hiding from those God cherishes so as to quicken desire into a deep, long-suffering love
Belden C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality
Day was still young as we rode between two great pikes of sandstone to the foot of a long, soft slope poured down from the domed hills in front of us. It was tamarisk-covered: the beginning of the Valley of Rumm, they said. We looked up on the left to a long wall of rock, sheering in like a thousand-foot wave towards the middle of the valley; whose other arc, to the right, was an opposing line of steep, red broken hills.
[…] Our little caravan grew self-conscious, and fell dead quiet, afraid and ashamed to flaunt its smallness in the presence of the stupendous hills.
Landscapes, in childhood’s dream, were so vast and silent.
We looked backward through our memory for the prototype up which all men had walked between such walls toward such an open square as that in front where this road seemed to end. Later, when we were often riding inland, my mind used to turn me from the direct road, to clear my senses by a night in Rumm and by the ride down its dawn-lit valley towards the shining plains, or up its valley in the sunset towards that glowing square which my timid anticipation never let me reach. I would say, ‘Shall I ride on this time, beyond the Khazail, and know it all?’ But in truth I liked Rumm too much.
T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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digitised version of Seven Pillars?
Hello fellow T.E. friends,
I am doing research on T.E.’s writing and I am wondering if anyone knows whether there is a digitised version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom?- and I specifically mean one of the (211?) subscribers’ copies, the ones that were fancily bound and had all the portraits and art et cetera.
Much obliged if anyone could inform me!
Random thought: the bathtub and hot water in Clouds Hill were not just one of the few luxuries Lawrence permitted himself. They were a necessity. With the broken and re-broken ribs, the broken wrist that didn’t heal right, the rheumatism in his hands and all the other injuries from the minor motorcycle accidents he kept getting into Lawrence would have been in a lot of pain, especially towards the end of his life.Hot baths would have been the easiest, quickest form of pain relief.
British Army's uniform regulations: established
Lawrence's outfit: Arab
Lawrence's identity: confused
< T.E. Lawrence is forcibly removed from Arabia >
Arabic poem written by Arabic poet Samaw'al ibn ‘Adiya, handwritten by Emir Faisal (Faisal I of Iraq), translated by T.E. Lawrence in January 1921 (Official translation below). Via Instagram account @ najm_aleadan
T.E. Lawrence, explaining why he carved οὐ φροντὶς (“no care”) on his lintel: “Nothing in Clouds Hill is to be a care upon the world. While I have it there shall be nothing exquisite or unique in it. Nothing to anchor me.” (Also it’s from a story in Herodotus that amused him and he was a giant nerd.)
Me, an intellectual: wow I can’t believe Ned permanently wrote “hakuna matata” on his own house

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“W’s death was an unhealed wound, & the ache of it has been with me ever since. I wanted him back - not his poetry”
— -Siegfried Sassoon on the death of Wilfred Owen
“Finally Feisal spared to us Nesib el Bekri, incomparably the best of those in the Arab camp. He was political-minded, able, persuasive and good humoured, and his patriotism sometimes overcame his native passion for the indirect.” - Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence. Nesib photographed by T.E. (IWM).
“So already I knew that when we had taken Akaba I would have to lead the movement either directly or indirectly, and as I was little a man of action the prospect appeared hateful. So many men craved action, detested thinking: it was an irony I should fill one of their places unwillingly. I had never coveted a greater office than the one I held: never envied a greater man than the self I was: but always I would have given all my soul for something less, because of a certain sluggishness of sense which demanded immediacy of contact for the attainment of sharp perception: it was sensation for me when the turn meant food or hunger: but in the category of food dry bread and a feast seemed alike. Accordingly, on this march I took risks with the set hope of proving myself unworthy to be the Arab assurance of final victory. A bodily wound would have been a grateful vent for my internal perplexities, a mouth through which my troubles might have found relief.”
The “Lawrence of Arabia” persona is far removed from the actual man who wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom, as this passage so plainly shows.
ouphrontis, could you maybe tell me from which chapter & version you’ve taken this quote? I can’t find it :( thanks!
I asked if [Auda] had found life good enough to thank his haphazard parents for bringing him into it? or selfishly to confer the doubtful gift upon an unborn spirit?
Seven Pillars of Wisdom