Thinking

water colour, Kennington, 182 x 127 mm

'Thinking. Chap. C' typeset brc of page, overprinted in white on black border. Band of camel riders in the lower foreground, with livid sky above, taking up most of the picture area, in black, grey, blue, green, orange, yellow and mauves, with [?] a caricature of Lawrence in the clouds.

p 530 [tr ed p 544] - 'It was evening, and on the straight bar of Sinai ahead the low sun was falling, its globe extravagantly brilliant in my eyes, because I was dead-tired of my life, longing as seldom before for the moody skies of England. This sunset was fierce, stimulant, barbaric; reviving the colours of the desert like a draught - as indeed it did each evening, in a new miracle of strength and heat - while my longings were for weakness, chills and grey mistiness, that the world might not be so crystalline clear, so definitely right and wrong.'

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