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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...
...English gentleman after all: he is an international crook who, as a French paper prettily puts it, "collects precious stones, chiefly diamonds." As for Paul, he climbs up to Joss's bedroom and is about to collect something more precious than stones, when Eliot relegates him to the compost heap with a single knife-stab. Suddenly, the beautiful old house rings to the tramp of invading flatfeet and the idyl ends with a whimper: "Mother. I want Mother...
...earth." The Dutch, already in the long shadows of a dying empire, promptly exiled him to Flores in the Outer Islands, where with thousands of other political detainees he continued his revolutionary education, reading insatiably in Dutch, English, French and Indonesian and drawing new conclusions from an odd compost of Lenin, Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey, Otto Bauer, Abraham Lincoln. He took time out-to divorce his wealthy widow and marry a young and beautiful Javanese girl named Fatmawati. He had no doubts about the future. "I entered prison a leader and I shall emerge a leader," he said...
BEAU CLOWN, by Berthe Grimault (188 pp.; Rinehart; $3), a crawling compost heap of a novel, accepts as normal and comical the sort of horror about which seamy-side Novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline wrote with fascination. Author Grimault describes a degenerate clan of French peasants and the flotsam that fetches up at their farm-two prostitutes, four U.S. Negro soldiers foraging for sex, and a netful of AWOL lunatics, including a gently demented old clown and a bloody-nailed slug named Chopper (he is obsessed with decapitation). When Chopper is gored by a huge white bull, a litter...