Tag Archives: T.E. Lawrence

rolls over rubies

Men and their cars.  Fetish object? idolatry? The freedom machine? Below:  Colonel T.E. Lawrence at the wheel of an armored Rolls-Royce in 1918. He later wrote:”A Rolls in the desert was above rubies.” (see link at end)…He would eventually command … Continue reading

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The secret agent: romantic incarnations

In fact and in fiction, the spy is the indispensable person of our time. Yet their activity poses a deadly threat to the open society… …The OSS and the early CIA inherited some of MI6′s snob appeal. Though tarnished by … Continue reading

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the secret agent: the clubby attitude

…The myth of espionage as an essentially patrician sport, like polo, had some slight foundation. In the early twentieth century secret service budgets, except possibly in Russia, were still modest, and to stretch them as far as possible the professionals … Continue reading

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cult of the secret agent

The cult of the secret agent. In fact as in fiction the spy is the indispensable person of our time. Yet their activity poses a deadly threat to the open society. We should not make the mistake of assuming that … Continue reading

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lost manuscript: searching with the rag pickers

There have been some famous lost manuscripts in the history of literature. There was Hemingway’s lost suitcase,Malcolm Lowry’s manuscript draft of Ballast to the White Sea was lost to fire in his shack near Vancouver, Plath’s 130 page draft of … Continue reading

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the right must leave: no dawdling. no loitering.

State of exception. Land of confusion. It can be plausibly be asserted  that Zionism has been intertwined in racial identity issues since its modern incarnation that began before Herzl. The hierarchy and pecking order, the old tropes of status and … Continue reading

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Art and Misdeameanors

”All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may … Continue reading

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