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The Seven Pillars Portraits
From the Castle Hill Press Seven Pillars, 1997
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| 4 Boyle, pastel by Eric Kennington. '. . . a very professional officer, as alert as any man could be, both businesslike and official, sometimes a little intolerant of easy-going things and people. Red-haired men are seldom patient, and "Ginger Boyle" as the men called him was a warm man.' Briefing Kennington for this portrait, Lawrence wrote: 'A good face (hot as mustard, red-haired, socialist, thinker, disciplinarian: thinks the world was made for Naval Officers: very decent: full of laughter of a slightly sharp sort: restless, impatient); a real bad sitter: but a first-rate face.' |
Illustration from Seven Pillars of Wisdom, the Complete 1922 Text.
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