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I'm about to start Blood Meridian this weekend as part of the bookclub.
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Finally finished 7 Pillars of Wisdom. Most of the first half was
and I've been really busy the last month or two so I haven't been able to read as much. The second half was much better though. I'm going to watch the movie sometime soon to see how they compare. Wonder if they kept the bizarre out of place 
scene 
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The Lawrence of Arabia biography I read has like a 50 page discussion on whether he got buttfricked or not
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Even in the book it's only (heavily) implied but it's also just a weird sequence. He gets plucked off the street by some
and none of the Arabs know where he is, then when he gets back to them after being beaten so badly that the local bigwig doesn't want to r*pe him anymore, no one questions it or seems to notice it 
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Was he? He's listed as a famous “asexual”, but a lot seems to point out he was a closeted bussy enjoyer
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It's one moment in his book and it wasnt very consensual
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I haven't read 7 pillars of wisdom, but having watched the movie I bet is that weirdly homoerotic scene where the
whip him but being 1962 they probably didn't included the whole affair.
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The biography I read argues, correctly ,I think, that the whipping episode that Lawrence describes was likely a cover for molestation/r*pe. Tbh I don't remember all the details as I read this about 10 years ago, but I think conversations from Lawrence later in life support this.
It wouldn't be so surprising if he didn't know how to talk about this stuff in 7 pillars and wrote the whipping story in its place
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yeah wasn't it still like actually illegal in Briton at the time? I thought the Turing stuff was decades later, I'd imagine Lawrence didn't want the same fate and was wise enough to see the writing on the wall.
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This is true, but Lawrence also becomes a hermit after returning to England and likely never had a relationship
We'll never really know, but I think it's quite possible he already had closeted homosexual thoughts and the r*pe really messed him up.
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