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T. E. Lawrence, The Mint
The Mint is a portrait of life in the ranks of the RAF in the 1920s. Although written in 1928, Lawrence did not intend it for publication in his lifetime. He himself did not swear, but his accounts of barrack-room conversations contain language that some might find offensive. |
BOOK CONTENTS
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Part I. The raw material | |
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Recruiting office The gate In the park The fear First Day Us The new skin Officers' mess P.T. Last Post Fatigues Reveille Vanities Holiday Church Mess deck Corporal Abner Baker's roll call Shit-cart Our Commanding Officer The social code Breaking or making Cook's mate Inspection Humbugging about China's trouble A sermon Our mould of form The last fatigue ------------------- |
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Part II. In the mill | |
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Disciplines The four senses Officers, please Non-commissioned officers My hours Intemperate A fresh start The time-table School Our instructor Now and then Stock-taking The little more Ceremony Extras Offensive Another chance Audience Odd man out In the guard-room Stiffy Gaol-delivery ------------------- |
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Part III. Service | |
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journey B Flight Manners A first note Lodgings Body and soul The hangar Work Funeral Dance night On parade Police duty The way of a bird Classes Fugitive The road A Thursday night Interlude |
T. E. Lawrence chronology
1888 16 August: born at Tremadoc, Wales
1896-1907: City of Oxford High School for Boys
1907-9: Jesus College, Oxford, B.A., 1st Class Hons, 1909
1910-14: Magdalen College, Oxford (Senior Demy), while working at the British Museum's excavations at Carchemish
1915-16: Military Intelligence Dept, Cairo
1916-18: Liaison Officer with the Arab Revolt
1919: Attended the Paris Peace Conference
1919-22: wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1921-2: Adviser on Arab Affairs to Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office
1922 August: Enlisted in the Ranks of the RAF
1923 January: discharged from the RAF
1923 March: enlisted in the Tank Corps
1923: translated a French novel, The Forest Giant
1924-6: prepared the subscribers' abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1927-8: stationed at Karachi, then Miranshah
1927 March: Revolt in the Desert, an abridgement of Seven Pillars, published
1928: completed The Mint, began translating Homer's Odyssey
1929-33: stationed at Plymouth
1931: started working on RAF boats
1932: his translation of the Odyssey published
1933-5: attached to MAEE, Felixstowe
1935 February: retired from the RAF
1935 19 May: died from injuries received in a motor-cycle crash on 13 May
1935 21 May: buried at Moreton, Dorset