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Zuotengdazuo Posted 7 years ago
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Allenby was accompanied by Lawrence of Arabia, who had just survived the greatest trauma of his life. In late November, on a solitary recce behind enemy lines, he had been captured at Deraa in Syria by the sadistic Ottoman governor Hajim Bey who, with his myrmidons, had subjected the “absurdly boyish” Englishman to a homosexual rape. Lawrence managed to escape and seemingly recover but the psychological damage was profound and, after the war, he described feeling “maimed, imperfect, only half-myself. Probably it had been the breaking of the spirit by that frenzied nerveshattering pain which degraded me to beast level and which had journeyed with me ever since, a fascination and terror and morbid desire.”

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Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Hi. Does the phrase “a fascination and terror and morbid desire” modify “pain”?
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zuotengdazuo Does the phrase “a fascination and terror and morbid desire” modify “pain”? No, not at all. It's a somewhat unconnected remark that calls back the idea of "psychological damage" which was the result of "the breaking of the spirit" mentioned earlier in the text.

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  • zuotengdazuo Does the phrase “a fascination and terror and morbid desire” modify “pain”?
  • No, not at all.
  • It's a somewhat unconnected remark that calls back the idea of "psychological damage" which was the result of "the breaking of the spirit" mentioned earlier in the text.
  • CJ
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zuotengdazuoDoes the phrase “a fascination and terror and morbid desire” modify “pain”?

No, not at all. It's a somewhat unconnected remark that calls back the idea of "psychological damage" which was the result of "the breaking of the spirit" mentioned earlier in the text.

CJ

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