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...ribbed after 27 months of pain and sacrifice, victory tasted sweet. It was hard to see towns go up in smoke, but it was good to know that in the blazing fires Hitler's hope of victory burned to dead ashes. The Donets Basin, Russia's Pennsylvania-om-Kansas, was free. The first train of Donets Basin coal reached Moscow. Red Army units were only 40-odd miles from the Dnieper, only 80-odd miles from Kiev...
Well, something's got to be done pretty damn quick or we'll be catching people calling the Yard, "the campus." Publish pamphlets, pound it into their ears at compulsory meetings, take om out on Friday nights and got om drunk, do anything, only do it quick! If you don't, they'll sink into the morass of integrals and compulsory exercise, and will be a total loss to civilization, not to say a pack of terrific bores at class reunions...
...OM: Music...
Buck up, laddies. Life to still worth while. The class book will go to press in a week or so with YOUR snapshots in it and one hundred fifty (Count 'om! One hundred fifty!) new WAVES will overflow into Cambridge before you've had a chance to forget your April Foel's Day Jokes...
Tindall's researches found that Lawrence's materials came not only from his constantly anguished experience but from a whole raft of undigested philosophy, anthropology, occultism. The fashionable gibber of Madame Blavatsky from Tibet, the yoga writings of one Pryse ("All I say is Om," said Lawrence), the Bergsonian view that all was flux, the Freudian unconscious, the Jungian libido, many studies of primitive culture were all skimmed by Lawrence for his private religion. By the time he got to Susan, says Scholar Tindall with no particular depth, deep called to deep...