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Rock Stars
Aug. 13th, 2024 07:26 am In waking life there's no-one I like less than Rock Star politico Tony Blair but in a dream last night I was very fond of him and hugging him and congratulating him on some fix he'd pulled off which involved daleks. The negotiations had been long and exhausting and he was so tired- poor thing....
I'm reading T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom at the rate of a chapter a night. As in the movie he spends a great deal of time schlepping through the desert, only the topography is very much more varied than the movie would have you believe and there's more vegetation. He describes it all very well. I admire the movie but it simplifies and sensationalises everything. That iconic scene with Omar Sharif trotting out of the heat haze to shoot Lawrence's guide? Didn't happen. In fact the character Omar plays didn't happen either- or is charitably to be regarded as an amalgam of many different people.
I'm also reading Nijinsky's Diary. Nijinsky and Lawrence were contemporaries and while I'm not quite mixing them up I'm finding they sort of intertwine. They were the rock stars of their era and ran with the same crowd- and both were friends of Ottoline Morrelll....
I'm reading T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom at the rate of a chapter a night. As in the movie he spends a great deal of time schlepping through the desert, only the topography is very much more varied than the movie would have you believe and there's more vegetation. He describes it all very well. I admire the movie but it simplifies and sensationalises everything. That iconic scene with Omar Sharif trotting out of the heat haze to shoot Lawrence's guide? Didn't happen. In fact the character Omar plays didn't happen either- or is charitably to be regarded as an amalgam of many different people.
I'm also reading Nijinsky's Diary. Nijinsky and Lawrence were contemporaries and while I'm not quite mixing them up I'm finding they sort of intertwine. They were the rock stars of their era and ran with the same crowd- and both were friends of Ottoline Morrelll....
