Book · 2022 · History
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The History of the Arab Revolution
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I want to read Seven Pillars now it's great.
What they say about it
- Read portions of it“went through Seven Pillars of Wisdom”2
- Discusses the original text“in the original version”2
The best things said about it
In the original version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom Lawrence's description of his rape was and this is wild 200 pages longer than the version that wound up been print which is a lot.
Lawrence's own account of his meeting with Allan be in Seven Pillars is much more colorful so I'm going to read that here because I just really like the guy's writing.
JP gestured towards the book saying my fighting gospel is TE Lawrence's Seven Pillars of wisdom I am never without it.
Lawrence clearly knew that there was some extent to which this was bogus from the beginning which is why he wrote in Seven Pillars hardly one day in Arabia passed without a physical ache to increase the corroding sense of my accessory def deceitfulness towards the Arabs.
Where and when it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
4 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence is a sweeping autobiographical account of the author's experiences during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire. The book has drawn varied commentary across multiple podcasts. On Behind the Bastards, Margaret Killjoy expressed a strong desire to read the work after learning about its significant historical impact, while Robert Evans dedicated segments of the show to examining the text in deep detail. Evans explored the history behind the book's initial creation, its destruction, and its survival, while also reading explicit passages regarding wartime atrocities at Tafas and analyzing Lawrence's heavy sense of guilt after encouraging the Arab uprising. Evans additionally referenced Lawrence's biographer, Jeremy Wilson, to discuss differing scholarly interpretations of the original, much longer draft concerning the author's wartime trauma and personal actions. Other commentators utilized the text for historical framing and rhetorical impact. Ben Bowlin mentioned the memoir while discussing the naming and history of Wadi Rum, and Steve Bannon quoted Lawrence's famous observations about the Middle East as a geopolitical sideshow during a keynote speech he later recounted on The Tucker Carlson Show. Through these discussions, the memoir continues to be analyzed as both a foundational historical document and a complex psychological portrait of a deeply conflicted military figure.
Every mention
Margaret Killjoy I want to read Seven Pillars now it's great yeah uh it is 1
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“I want to read Seven Pillars now it's great yeah uh it is”
Robert Evans Laurence was even more explicit about his actions that day in Seven Pillars in a Madness born of the horror… 17
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“Laurence was even more explicit about his actions that day in Seven Pillars in a Madness born of the horror of tus we killed and killed even blowing in the heads of the fallen and of the animals as though their death and running blood could slake our agony”
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“he' planned to publish a book called Seven Pillars of wisdom”
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“in the original version of Seven Pillars of wisdom Lawrence's description of his rape was and this is wild 200 Pages longer than the version that wound up been print which is a lot”
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“Jeremy Wilson LA's officials biographer interprets the original text or at least what we have of the earlier texts of Seven Pillars very differently from nightly the fact that you have Lawrence being more of a dick you know about some of this stuff as this segment from an article in the independent makes clear Wilson said the text shows”
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“Wilson said the text shows that Lawrence felt guilty after he encouraged the Arabs to rise up and fight”
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“also describes Seven Pillars as essentially accurate right”
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“so I I went through seven pillars of wisdom and I I read the portions of the book which discuss aaba and there aren't a whole lot”
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“because I I went through seven pillars of wisdom and I I read the portions of the book which discuss aaba and there aren't a whole lot”
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“and I I think actually Seven Pillars gives a pretty fair accounting of how that all actually worked out”
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“but Lawrence's own account of his meeting with Allan be in Seven Pillars is much more colorful so I'm going to read that here because I I just really like the guy's writing”
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“but I can read a quote from Lawrence's book to describe how he did it yet what do you mean yet yet”
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“Lawrence clearly knew that there was some extent to which this was bogus from the beginning which is why he wrote in Seven Pillars hardly one day in Arabia passed without a physical ache to increase the corroding sense of my accessory def deceitfulness towards the Arabs”
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“and he describes lengthy how he was beaten and tortured and then gang raped by the governor and his guards in seven pillars”
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“now in a more Artful bit of writing Lawrence Lauren this is I want to quote from a poem that Lawrence writes in Seven Pillars of Islam which satin argues is a poem that he is”
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“and so I'm going to quote again from Anthony satin's book The Young TE Lawrence where he writes about a story that hamoodi told of this visit after Lawrence's death”
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“JP gestured towards the book saying my fighting gospel is TE Lawrence's Seven Pillars of wisdom I am never without it”
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“at the point in 1946 that gpp is showing off his copy of Seven Pillars of wisdom in this meeting uh TE Lawrence is still very famous”
Ben Bowlin he was moved by the experience of going through that area and he wrote a book about his experience called s… 1
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“he was moved by the experience of going through that area and he wrote a book about his experience called seven pillars of wisdom and then we get into a um a weird circumstance here”
Steve Bannon And when I gave that keynote speech to kind of wrap up the national conservatism conference, which is kind… 1
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“And when I gave that keynote speech to kind of wrap up the national conservatism conference, which is kind of got a a strong neocon you know, take on it. I said to quote T. E. Lawrence from the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, what they told him at the time when he showed up at Cairo's military headquarters, they said,”
Other mentions (5: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“like look I'm not an expert educator which is why I trained an llm on Lawrence of Arabia's book Seven Pillars of wisdom and I've just let that loose on the kids”
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“prior to the 1960 Lawrence of Arabia this is kind of like the first movie version of Lawrence and it's it's portrayed as journalism”
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“like prior to the 1960 Lawrence of Arabia this is kind of like the first movie version of Lawrence and it's it's portrayed as journalism”
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“I do also like to imagine that in like uh Aragorn's version of Seven Pillars of wisdom like the whole Battle of Helms Deep is just the arcs attacked us said Helms Deep and we won”
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“even while Lawrence was busy writing of his adventures in Seven Pillars of Islam”