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T. E. Lawrence to Henry Wiliamson
Extracts, 44 words omitted
[11 December 1928]
Thank you for Rutter's books on Mecca
and Medina. They are most modestly good: very human, and fair, and
fresh. The entire absence of great-mindedness is very charming. I wonder
who he is? Some very queer fish, probably, who has lived for a long
while on the wrong side of the world.
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You say The Pathway is unhappy
stuff. Well, so is all my writing. Let not us impotents be shy of our
impotencies, behind the licked envelopes of letters.
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You'll laugh to hear that I still pick
up Tarka often, read a few pages, and lay it down. I find it
holds more than I thought, even at first: and what I said the first time
was 'pemmican': a variety, I’m told, of pressed beef.
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The public pressure on you to write
another book before you feel inclined to think of a pen seriously, must
be horrid.
Note:
Extracts, printed in GOF out of order but in the correct
sequence here. Full text, 192 words, in Letters Vol. 9 p. 57.
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