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Just finished it. What a good book. Really different from the movie. Took me about 2 months to finish.
You can really see the complex nature of him acting as a double agent and how it was eating him from the inside. Its a shame he died in the accident. He would have probably fought in the second world war as a pilot.

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>mfw
>'salute him for me'
>'God will give you peace'
Also the introduction by Angus Calder in the wordsworth edition is really gay. He writes as if he didnt like the book. While he gives some insight on the making of the book, he just warns the reader that Lawrence's views are VERY racist and not up to modern standards

>> No.19689031

>>19687798
>the dedication to his book Seven Pillars is a poem titled "To S.A." which opens:

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands
and wrote my will across the sky in stars
To earn you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house,
that your eyes might be shining for me
When we came.

>Lawrence was never specific about the identity of "S.A." Many theories argue in favour of individual men or women, and the Arab nation as a whole. The most popular theory is that S.A. represents (at least in part) his companion Selim Ahmed, "Dahoum", who apparently died of typhus before 1918.[180][181][182]

>> No.19689111

>>19687798
Fucking awesome book.