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4633611 No.4633611 [Reply] [Original]

is t. e. lawrence's work worth reading?

>> No.4633636

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is good

>> No.4633644

>>4633643
shut the fuck up

>> No.4633643

>>4633611
nothing is worth reading if you don't enjoy reading it

>> No.4633648

>>4633611
I was blown away by Seven Pillars of Wisdom--why? Because Laurence of Fuckin Arabia is a damn poet--and it shows.

Brevity, beauty, and total immersion.

>> No.4633662

>>4633643

the pop-spiritual bullshit platitudes of someone who has never gone to college or studied anything remotely difficult in his life

just get off this board you hugbox reddit cunt

>> No.4633670

>>4633662
>>4633644
Okay so how am I wrong?

>> No.4633691 [DELETED] 

>>4633670

go and find an older doctor who has had a brilliant career and ask them how much they enjoyed reading textbooks and medical journals when they were studying medicine as a kid

they're wouldn't honestly and rightly told you that they fucking absolutely loathed it. but enduring those frustrations gave them the skillsets to go on and help others in a way that wouldn't have been achievable otherwise

there are a huge number of fields you could apply this scenario to

i'm sure these little platitudes of yours sound flowery and nice when you're writing them out but they're housewife bullshit

>> No.4633696

>>4633670

go and find an older doctor who has had a brilliant career and ask them how much they enjoyed reading textbooks and medical journals when they were studying medicine as a kid

they would honestly and rightly tell you that they fucking absolutely loathed it. but enduring those frustrations gave them the skillsets to go on and help others in a way that wouldn't have been achievable otherwise

there are a huge number of fields you could apply this scenario to

i'm sure these little platitudes of yours sound flowery and nice when you're writing them out but they're housewife bullshit

>> No.4633703

>>4633696

rekt

>> No.4633706

>>4633611

great man.

>> No.4633711

>>4633696
but obviously this guy is reading for pleasure

you are attacking a man made of straw with your hayfork

>> No.4633733

>>4633711

>nothing is worth reading if you don't enjoy reading it

it's like you don't even understand what a platitude is holy fuck cunt just kill ursel

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>>4633696

>> No.4635619

The dude is a white guy living 100y ago (which literally always means white supremacist) among Sandniggers. So I'm pretty sure he had to say some funny and not very politically correct stuff.

>> No.4635699

>>4633696
Fuck off, let Zarathustra go erase his memories in peace.

>> No.4635739

An extrodinaire man.

Great men of history are often either "men at the right place at the right time" or "men who shape the time around them".

I'd venture to say that Laurence occupied a strange liminal space in between those two axioms.

He spoke arabic (which was uncommon for an aryan dandy british gentleman). He was bold as brass, brave beyond comprehension--to go out into the unforgiving desert with a bunch of strangers and semi-savages, also daring--and to lead them, for god sakes.

He was a quizzical man, had edwardian eccentricity, yet he was brave, meticulous, Machiavellian for British interests, and genuine.

He was an anomaly of history--he just stood out.

He gives hope for the "meritocratic narrative", that a man of extraordinaire skills, talents, and abilities, despite his background, can always rise to prominence.

That being said, his life after WW1 was rather quiet, often speculated because of his broken manhood (his rape by the Turks).

Extraordinaire life.