176 “a cry (if not from the housetops)”:Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 14.

176 “thinned to the bone”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 75.

177 “in no way diminished”:Ibid.

177 Lawrence did not seem:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 68.

177 “took a most brilliant First Class”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 68.

177 busy readingPetit Jehan: Lawrence, Home Letters,10.

178 “a research fellowship”:Wilson, Lawrence, 69.

178 “The two occupations fit into one another”:Ibid.

178 “The dangerous crises”:Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 8.

chapter fiveCarchemish: 1911-1914

181 “a man of action”:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 20.

181 It comes as no surprise:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 102.

182 When Lawrence went up to Jesus College:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 21.

182 “a cynical and highly-educated baboon”:Ibid., 20.

182 “a boy of extraordinary”:Ibid., 30.

183 “the only man I had never”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 369.

184 “a dreary and desolate waste”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 71.

186 Lawrence sailed for Beirut:Ibid., 76.

187 “They were always talking”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 122.

187 “the spiritual side of his character”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 77-78.

188 “Lawrence seems to me”:Ibid., 78.

189 “sit down to it”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 130.

189 “archeological overseer”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 78.

190 “was flagrantly and evidently an exotic”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 137.

190 “Turkish & Greek”:Ibid.

190 “the Lejah, the lava no-man’s-land”:Ibid.

193 “admitted to six or seven murders”:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 81.

193 “set her before him”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 154.

194 Bell was disappointed:Wallach, Desert Queen, 93.

195 “stained [purple] with Tyrian die”:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 51.

195 “Can you make room”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 85.

196 “beautifully built and remarkably handsome”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 97.

197 “an interesting character”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 173.

198 “I am very well”:Ibid., 176.

198 “efforts to educate himself”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 95.

199 Apparently impressed by Hogarth’s letters:Ibid., 92.

200 “I am not enthusiastic about Flecker”:Sherwood, No Golden Journey, 47.

202 “Great rumors of war”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 182.

203 Lawrence turned up for digging:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 84-85.

203 “was not an Oxonian”:Ibid., 85.

205 “such as Bedouin sheiks wear”:Ibid., 192.

205 He seems to have been reading:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 101.

208 “essential immaturity”:Ibid., 85.

208 “frail, pallid, silent”:Ibid., 81.

208 “when the police tried”:Lawrence, Letters from T. E. Lawrence to E. T. Leeds, 43.

209 “explicit promise”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 103.

210 Lawrence was using Dahoum:Ibid., 104.

211 Those who were closest to Lawrence and Dahoum:Arnold Lawrence (ed.), T. E. Lawrence by His Friends, 89.

214 Lawrence notes in a letter home:Lawrence, Home Letters, 210.

215 “for the foreigner [this country]”:Ibid., 218.

216 He wrote to England for medical advice:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 107.

216 “a big garden”:Sherwood, No Golden Journey, 153.

216 “carelessly flung beneath a tree”:Ibid., 146.

217 “I feel very little the lack”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 230.

217 He wrote to his youngest brother, Arnold:Ibid., 226.

219 “Flecker, the admiral at Malta”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 85.

219 “gun-running” incident:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 118.

220 Although skeptics about Lawrence:Graves, Lawrence and the Arabs, 36.

221 “Buswari and his great enemy”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 254.

222 “running around with guns”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 946.

224 “a place where one eats lotos”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 161.

225 “couldn’t shoot the railway bridge”:Ibid., 255.

225 “a pleasant, healthy warmth”:Ibid.

226 Already there had been protests:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 123-124.

227 “a pocket Hercules”:Lawrence to Edward Marsh, June 10, 1927. Lawrence, Letters,Garnett (ed.), 521.

228 By the end of August:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 126.

228 “the most beautiful town”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 441.

230 “You must not think of Ned”:Ibid., 447.

230 “was still in Ireland”:Ibid., 256.

231 “olive tree boles”:Ibid., 274.

232 “I cannot print with you”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 132.

232 “from west to east”:Ibid., 137.

234 “approach Kenyon”:Ibid.

234 “Hogarth concurs in the idea”:Ibid., 138.

235 “a picturesque little crusading town”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 281.

238 Newcombe was not dismayed:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 141.

238 “back to Mount Hor”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 286.

240 On March 21, Woolley and Lawrence:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 143-145.

240 A Circassian working for the Germans:Ibid., 144.

241 “the only piece of spying”:Ibid., 147.

241 More interesting still was the amount of information:Ibid.

chapter sixCairo: 1914-1916

248 “In Constantinople the seizure”:Randolph Churchill and Gilbert, Winston Churchill, 1914-1916,Vol. 3, 192.

248 “As the shadows of the night”:Churchill, The World Crisis,Vol. 1, 227.

250 COMMENCE HOSTILITIES: Geoffrey Miller, “Turkey Enters the War and British Actions.” December 1999, http://www.gwpda.org/naval/turk mill.htm.

251 “He’s running my entire department”:Graves, Lawrence and the Arabs, 63.

251 “I want to talk to an officer”:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 124.

252 “as an officer ideally suited”:Ibid., 126.

253 “Clayton stability”:Storrs, Orientations, 179.

254 “a youngster, 2nd Lt. Lawrence”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 154.

254 “Keep your eye on Afghanistan”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 300.

255 “in the office from morning”:Ibid., 301.

257 “bottle-washer and office boy”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 167.

257 He was well aware of events:Ibid., 169.

258 “pieced together”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 131.

259 Abdulla’s concern was that the Turkish government:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 164-165.

259 One son, Emir Feisal:Antonius, The Arab Awakening, 72.

260 “It may be”:Wilson, Lawrence, 165.

264 “The assault I regret to say”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 721.

264 “You will never understand”:Ibid., 304.

265 “If I do die”:Ibid., 718.

267 “To the excellent and well-born”:Antonius, The Arab Awakening, 167.

271 “a twenty-minute Parliamentary debate”:Storrs, Orientations, 229.