T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 263

To James Hanley E. VII. 31 -S- men, and ships and Alexandria! I will try & find something not pimpish of us in Arab kit, for you. It was long ago, and a seabby episode in my life, I think. Politically the thing was so dirty that I grew to hate it all before it came out more-or-less honestly in Due and .... So when I see pictures of myself in Arab kit I get a little impatient - silly of me, for it was long ago, and did really happen. Your sanity and general wholesomeness stick up out of your books a mile high: simple with dirty patches in Shem skirt round and round them, alluding but never speaking witch one. They are afraid of giving their spots away - you can map them, just by outlining the blennies, whereas, God almighty, you leave nothing unsaid or undone, do you? I can't understand how you find brave men to publish you! Yours T.E. Shaw