T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 606

2. As for the second part of your letter: Well, I'm helpless to say anything, having put myself - well, I'm really celibate, and such celibacy is un-natural, in the your own view, in which it overturns a man's balance, and it throws your own tail, (which is unwholesome: for it throws ...ge of arrest, in snakes) on an friendship to satisfy the turn into .... ...version. If I have missed slip may easily satisfy hope and you seem to suggest a chlp these things, lucky.. It has not been easy; and it leads, in old age, to misery. For yourself you have followed the worn road, and you are reproaching your humanity. Of course you feel a worm, are worms. It is only a fortune, happening of this sort Which lets us get out of our smugness and see it, in mankind started confessing: to avoid the other (or even to themselves) the it won't do. There is not one of us to the fathers and mothers ......Oh No: righteousness not one. Anything very difficult is ipso facto useful, in the lowest sense, as experience. Artists are harder set than ordinary men, because they will be deal so much (even the intellectual ones, like you) in emotion. Celandine is an artist: he is an artist herself, so that will be superbly right, in the end. And, as you are the children are well - well, let them make up for the parent's not-happiness. What's the bloody good of pens, ink, and paper. There is no air mail to Karachi. I'll see you in 1930, if all goes well. Speed it. Yours . T.E.L. I expect the S.P. prices to fall. So look out.