T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 311

2 To H.Williams...(...) 18.3.30-21.3.30 You seem to be able to pen a good phrase in simple words almost as and when you please. I ran back to that Bunyan there, for he got to the end of his P.P. without throwing in the p.c. The sun-flickers on the toppling wave p.28. The winter; very very good it is. An epitome of Salisbury Plain. p.39. That journey to the coast. p.40. Wiggling, shiny...... p.59. Light run and trembled p.68. Little-things wavered p.69. Dimming night.....does it dim? I hesitated for two moments here. p.64. Mere ghost of ...wader P.73."in a vacuum..." p.86 .The nailed boots bit p.88. a flittering butterfly of light p.104. dilated by every ruddy crash p.116. gangrenous light of dawn P.117. The broken skull is beautifully observed p.125. ribbed serjeants corpses....but isn't this almost too technical a picture? p.129. The picture & metaphor of Ypres is superb. P.159. Tuckering the water...superb; it didn't need the toad's back, really. p.169. his ".trembling body was now large and alone. p.164.pooiets of their minds growingtowards ". If some unkind power forbade me to take interest in that little list I could make a second and a third list of delights. Camaradeship like yours warms one, to meet. I begin/ to suspect that you may be one of those com- paratively rare authors who write best about people or things other than themselves. I hope so, because it is the sort that lasts longest, unless (you are, deleted: one is a very deep man, like Dostoevsky, and can keep on digging down into (yourself, deleted: oneself. I hope you aren't that, because it means misery for the artist, and the two roads, happiness & misery, seem to be equally within our choice, as, & there comes a more common sense to be happy. Tarka and this P.P. are better than your novels, I think, I think, because you get further outside the horrific convolutions of your brain/ in each. The objective, as somebody (what properly may, which is the classic rather than the romantic manner. I have enjoyed the P.P. very much. The Hut say that it isn't properly named, it being not a bind" like that Bunyan chap's stuff. "Bind" is ....