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[lollardfish]

I am assuming everyone else knew that the T. E. Lawrence who wrote Crusader Castles is also known as "Lawrence of Arabia?" Or did someone forget to tell me!

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[neogrammarian.livejournal.com]

Erm, sorry, thought you knew?

[lakeboy-55.livejournal.com]

Oh dang! You found out. We've been keeping it from you for years. He looked a lot like Peter O'toole (not).

[lakeboy-55.livejournal.com]

OK, I'm confused. I'm sure I saw a post from you regarding Steve Earle. When I went back to make a comment it was gone...

Sooo...

I'm very fond of Steve Earle's music, or maybe that's not the right word to use. I like it. In Fiddlehead, the pseudo-irish band I play with in the UP, I sing "Dixieland", and play the bodhran. It's way cool.

Now, that's out of my system.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

My Steve Earle post is gone? I didn't mean to delete it. No, wait, it's here: http://lollardfish.livejournal.com/234452.html.

I like Galway Girl too.

[lakeboy-55.livejournal.com]

I like Galway Girl too. Tried to get the band to learn it, but our guitar player got too confused by the chorus adding one measure each time through.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

There's a joke in there somewhere.

You didn't get the note?

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

You musta confused him with his twin brother, D.H. Lawrence...

[carbonel]

I knew it only because my main knowledge of T.E. Lawrence comes from reading a biography (Jeremy Wilson's, I think) after watching the movie Lawrence of Arabia.

It was his Oxford thesis.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Heh. I just got a copy because I'm trying to figure out where a myth about a crusader castle (that B. learned in Syria) came from ...

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

Well, I knew that T. E. Lawrence was also known as Lawrence of Arabia. I had no idea that he was the author of Crusader Castles.

[galacticvoyeur.livejournal.com]

I suppose I should look for a copy of Crusader Castles — his Seven Pillars of Wisdom was one of the most astonishing books I've ever read. That was many years ago, but it stuck with me that I needed to re-read it again someday.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I'm where David Schroth is; didn't know about the book in your field.

I'm not sure; I might know because of something in an Anthony Price novel, or it might go back further.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

I make three: I didn't know about the book (though I knew about Seven Pillars of Wisdom and was aware that he wrote other stuff), but I knew T.E. was Lawrence.

[ferrousoxide.livejournal.com]

Synchronicity! I had the same issue in my Crusades course last week. Someone was going on about T.E. Lawrence and all the English majors looked at one another puzzled. I took one for the team and asked "...erm...who?" Of course, when the prof said "Lawrence of Arabia" we all felt like asses. Obviously, we know who *that* is...palm/face.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Heh. I had no clue and I am allegedly an expert in the Crusades. I say allegedly, because how can one be an expert without knowing that Larry of Arabia was T.E. Lawrence?