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...personal triumph of the will. Rattigan further deduces that when Lawrence was whipped, bayoneted and sodomized on the orders of a Turkish commander at Deraa, his will was broken in a traumatic moment of "self-knowledge": he recognized himself as a homosexual. His later enlistment in the R.A.F. as "Aircraftman Ross" was a way of blotting out his identity...
Lawrence of Arabia: The Man and the Motive, by Anthony Nutting. Britain's quirky compost of desert hero, scholar and aircraftman, who has provided plenty of controversial copy for novelists, play wrights, biographers and muckrakers, is dissected again in an absorbing analysis by Britain's onetime Minister of State for Foreign Affairs...
Lawrence of Arabia: The Man and the Motive, by Anthony Nutting. Britain's quirky compost of desert hero, scholar and aircraftman, who has provided plenty of controversial copy for novelists, playwrights, biographers and muckrakers, is dissected again in an absorbing analysis by Britain's onetime Minister of State for Foreign Affairs...
...Aircraftman Shaw, he spent ten years in uniform, recording the unending obscenity of barracks life in The Mint, racing motorcycles for relaxation, developing high-speed crash boats for air-sea rescue operations. In 1935 he left the service. "I would not take any job at all," he wrote Lady Astor. "There is something broken in the works, as I told you: my will, I think." Five days later, on May 13, 1935, Lawrence swerved his motorcycle to avoid two boys, fatally crashed into a ditch. Lawrence's bust was put beside that of Nelson and Wellington in the crypt...
...many as a masterpiece, his own monumental, turgid and mystic Seven Pillars of Wisdom became the bible of a widespread cult of Lawrence admirers, whose most romantic ideals were justified when their unpredictable hero renounced the world at the pinnacle of his fame to join the R.A.F. as lowly Aircraftman Ross...