T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 597
T. E. Lawrence Correspondence
Page 597
LH 4/13/42
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lowest aspect of Brown Phillips. I apologise to each and every one. Your 'phone conversation to the press was a master-tabloid. I bet they went off with a buzz in their ears. Ha ha.
They tell me Pike is in difficulties. I'm sorrowful at that, not altogether unexpected, news. He is his greatest difficulty. It is a pity that so fine a workman should have two eyes.
So you too feel old sometimes? Here in Karachi I not merely feel old, but am old. And you want to create, whereas I've bust all my head's blood vessels in an abortive effort to create, and am condemned not to exert myself in future. What would you do in such a case? Say ha ha and blow your brains out? Too messy.
If only it were all over.
Yours
T.E.S.
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