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Topic: The El Lawrence Theory of History

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OP - August 23, 2014, 12:04 PM

Dangerous thing reading!

I am wondering if the book and film Lawrence of Arabia have had more effect than we realise!

The myth is of the desert tribes attacking Jerusalem etc after Mo's death. The way Lawrence attacked from the desert is a replay of this myth, and makes sense of why what Lawrence himself described as (paraphrasing) a minor skirmish of a backwater of the war, has had such symbolic power, albeit helped by Peter O Toole, David Lean and Jarre!

But what if it is not from the desert, Mecca and Medina at all, but a warlord living in Samaria who had delusions of the end time, who actually attacked Jerusalem himself after he allegedly died?

Do we have an example of an author and Hollywood reinforcing a myth?

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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Reply #1 - August 23, 2014, 12:21 PM

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Bh4HAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA69&lpg=RA1-PA69&dq=mohammed+becca&source=bl&ots=QkxEZo99kV&sig=wSrFFp7e8wS1rrD2hcrsy7mnFHs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Pob4U53aFoiVauvagTg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=mohammed%20becca&f=false

This 1800 book, Google also references a 1700's book, states that Becca is also known as Mecca.

Snag is that there is a very well known Becca in Lebanon near Damascus - definitely not a desert location!

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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