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562
“she began ecstatically reading”:
Ibid.

564
“This letter has got to be”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 690.

564
“Your offer is a generous and kind one”:
Ibid., 691.

567
“a brace of thoroughgoing modern ruffians”:
Ibid., 695.

567
“Nelson, slightly cracked”:
Ibid.

567
“You are evidently a very dangerous man”:
Holroyd,
Bernard Shaw
, Vol. III, 85.

568
a “virtuoso” essay:
Ibid.

569
“unreasonably”:
Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks
, 74.

569
“previous service”:
Ibid.

569
“ ‘I am convinced that some quality’“:
Findlay, “The Amazing AC 2.”

570
“an accomplished poseur”:
Holroyd,
Bernard Shaw
, Vol. III, 88.

570
”‘There is no end to your Protean tricks’“:
Ibid., 86.

572
“The cat being now let out of the bag”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 697.

573
“How is it conceivable, imaginable”:
Ibid., 699-700.

573
“get used to the limelight”:
Ibid., 700.

574
“that his position in the RAF”:
Ibid., 701.

575
“the position, which had been extremely”:
Ibid., 706.

575
“well-known for its large pond and bird life”:
Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 76.

575
“played up at Farnborough”:
Ibid., 77.

576
“how his men were to distinguish”:
Lawrence, SP, 574.

577
“sounded out”:
Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks
, 80.

577
“sees no very great difficulty about it”:
Ibid.

577
“A good idea!”:
Ibid., 80-81.

578
“To Pte. Shaw from Public Shaw”:
Holroyd,
Bernard Shaw
, Vol. III, 88.

578
“and was posted to A Company”:
Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks
, 81.

579
“queerly homesick”:
Ibid., 86.

579
“prevailing animality of spirit”:
Ibid., 85.

580
“speak and act with complete assurance”:
Ibid., 82.

580
“It’s a horrible life”:
Ibid., 83.

580
“this cat-calling carnality seething”:
Ibid., 84.

582
“inarticulate, excessively uncomfortable”:
Shaw letter, July 19, 1924; or Knightley and Simpson,
Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia
, 190.

582
“Lawrence did nothing without a purpose”:
Knightley and Simpson,
Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia
, 168.

583
“His disloyalty reminded”:
Jerusalem Post, 1961, quoted in Graves,
Lawrence and the Arabs
, 230.

586
“called him a bastard”:
Knightley and Simpson,
Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia
, 174.

586
“turned his back on God”:
Ibid.

587
“an unsigned, typed letter”:
Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks
, 88-89.

588
“to report in writing”:
Ibid., 89.

588
“Circassian riding whip”:
Lawrence, SP, 498.

589
“it was rather his pied-à-terre”:
Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks
, 93.

590
“Hardy is so pale”:
Lawrence,
Letters
, Garnett (ed.), 429-431.

590
“craving for real risk”:
Mack,
Prince
, 343.

590
“swerved at 60 M.P.H.”:
Lawrence,
Letters,
Garnett (ed.), 419-420.

591
“Lawrence is not normal in many ways”:
Lawrence,
Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw
, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 45.

591
“Damn you, how long do you”:
Arnold Lawrence (ed.),
Letters to T.E. Lawrence
, 154.

591
“I can’t cheer you up”:
Ibid., 64.

594
“A black core”:
Lawrence,
Letters
, Brown (ed.), 233.

594
He persisted with it, however:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 719-720.

595
“he looked very much like Colonel Lawrence”:
Arnold Lawrence (ed.),
T. E. Lawrence by His Friends
, 244.

595
“I have written another magnificent play”:
Lawrence,
Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw
, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 51.

596
“upon the throne of a nation-state”:
Holroyd,
Bernard Shaw
, Vol. III, 86.

596
“With their missionary zeal”:
Ibid., 88.

596
“There isn’t as much strength in Joan”:
Lawrence,
Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw
, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 86.

597
“I’d like to very much”:
Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks
, 97.

598
“all sorts of minor ailments”:
Ibid., 102.

598
“I’d rather the few copies”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 727.

599
“The business will be done”:
Ibid., 731.

599
“Confound you”:
Lawrence,
Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw
, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 103-105.

601
“I’m always afraid of being hurt”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 739.

602
“I don’t know by what right”:
Lawrence,
Letters
, Garnett (ed.), 214.

602
“fits of extreme depression”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 754.

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Apotheosis

605
“A Flight-Sergeant came along”:
Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks
, 109.

606
“dragged in to the Headquarters Adjutant”:
Lawrence,
Letters
, Garnett (ed.), 481.

608
“He was hero-worshipped”:
Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks
, 117.

608
“to dive into the elastic water”:
Ibid., 113.

610
“found Feisal lively”:
Ibid., 116.

610
“So long as there is breath”:
Lawrence,
Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw
, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 150.

611
“This bundle of proofs”:
Ibid., 137.

611
“Something extraordinary always happens”:
Ibid., 35.

612
The gift basket from Gunter’s:
Ibid., 150-6.

613
“No thanks: no money”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters
, 360.

615
“It is not the right blue”:
Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks
, 127.

616
“with his right arm dangling”:
Ibid., 121.

617
“It is good of you”:
Trenchard Papers, November 20, 1926, quoted ibid., 124.

618
This was an infringement of the U.K. Copyright Act:
Ibid., 126.

618
“I have been surprised”:
Ibid., 132.

620
“the breath away by its sheer brutality”:
Ibid., 133.

620
“Hullo here’s the Orderly”:
Lawrence,
Letters,
Garnett (ed.), 502-503.

620
“Wave upon wave”:
Ibid., 502-503.

622
“I do wish, hourly”:
Ibid., 506.

623
Not only Bernard Shaw believed:
Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks
, 135.

624
At Cranwell, the telegraph boy:
Ibid., 128.

624
“When I opened your letter”:
Ibid., 138.

625
“The fellow you need to influence”:
Lawrence,
Letters
, Garnett (ed.), 599.

626
“Gertrude was not a good judge”:
Ibid., 543.

628
“was sentfor”:
Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks
, 143.

629
“his head was everything”:
Ibid., 149.

629
“suddenly and quietly”:
Ibid., 150.

630
“William Blake, Thomas Malory”:
Ibid., 152.

630
“which he kept in a small tin box”:
Ibid.

630
“I think probably there will be”:
Ibid.

630
“instead of visiting Karachi”:
Ibid., 154.

631
“A conversation between”:
Ibid., 163.

631
“We are only 26”:
Ibid.

633
“I think that the spectacle”:
Ibid., 169.

633
“Very bookish, this house-bred”:
Lawrence,
Odyssey of Homer
, end of “Note.”

634
A genuine holy man:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 845.

634
On January 3,1929:
Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks
, 178.