T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 179

To: G.P.J. Cumberlege. From Co-y 338171 A/c Shaw R. A. F. Mount Batton Plymouth 26.IV.33 Dear Cumberlege Sailing the 18th - you should be in London ... ? I'll do my best to see you some how. The R.A.F. are discussing me at the moment, and will probably send me soon to Felixstowe, in Suffolk, to work there upon motor boats - new types of boats, I hope. This move might happen in a week, and till it ... itself I am tied here. It will bring me through London, and I'll try and fix a meet- ing on the way, so to speak. My life has been unequal lately - or rather, I have been unequal to it. So I have not worked at all on a revise of the Odyssey. That New Republic review was amazingly fortified; but hasn't helped much. He's right about his first "error" - changing the bow-hand: only one cannot make that out of the Greek, unhappily. Exactly what Homer meant in the second place, about boar's teeth & fields of ripe corn, Heaven only knows. It isn't easy to spatter out a boar's teeth! Per- sonally I call my version pretty accurate by the letter. The spirit, of course, is my own - Yours T. E. Shaw