The gad-fly

p [40], line, Kennington, 90 x 124 mm

Cartoon - Lawrence at a telephone switchboard - second switchboard with corporal saluting, higher ranks in a group behind, and piles of paperwork around.

p 39 [tr ed p 63] - 'I decided that I must escape at once, if ever. A straight request was refused; so I took to stratagems. I became, on the telephone (G.H.Q. were at Ismailia, and I in Cairo) quite intolerable to the Staff on the Canal. I took every opportunity to rub into them their comparative ignorance and inefficiency in the department of intelligence (not difficult!) and irritated them yet further by literary airs, correcting Shavian split infinitives and tautologies in their reports.'

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