So far it is remarkable (and also tragic) the amount of prescience that Lawrence showed. It is perhaps all too fitting that the man who would become the hero of the sands would also introduce the very methods that have helped plunge the area into an everlasting war zone

“How sweet was that quiescent silence, in which they could listen to the pulsing of hearts, and bask in the delight of a dream of everlasting love!” Emile Zola