Answers: "Lawrence of Arabia" is based upon Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," from which the following quotation is taken. The book is underneath U.S. copyright, and a longer quote would be inappropriate. Readers outside the US will find the entire book at the cited source. Readers inside the US will find the source, which would be unofficial for them to use.
Here Lawrence undertakes his release for independent operation:
"A straight request was refuse; so I took to stratagems. I became, on the cellular phone (G.H.Q. were at Ismailia, and I within Cairo) quite intolerable to the Staff on the Canal. I took every opportunity to rub into them their comparative ignorance and inefficiency surrounded by the department of intelligence (not difficult!) and irritated them yet further by literary airs, correcting Shavian split infinitives and tautologies within their reports.
"In a few days they were bubbling over on my side, and at last determined to live through me no longer. I took this strategic opportunity to ask for ten days' leave, dictum that Storrs was going down to Jidda on business near the Grand Sherif, and that I would like a holiday and joyride contained by the Red Sea with him. They did not love Storrs, and be glad to get rid of me for the moment. So they agreed at once, and begin to prepare against my return some official shelf for me. Needless to say-so, I had no intention of giving them such a randomness; for, while very geared up to hire my body out on petty service, I hesitated to throw my mind frivolously away. So I go to Clayton and confessed my affairs; and he arranged for the Residency to make telegraphic application to the Foreign Office for my verbs to the Arab Bureau. The Foreign Office would treat directly with the War Office; and the Egypt command would not hear of it, till adjectives was completed."
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