little white cottage, dorset, england, 1996
"retired from the raf [royal air force] at age 46, lawrence [of arabia] settled into a cottage in dorset, [england,] but the peace he'd felt in the military slipped away. while riding his motorcycle a few months later, lawrence crested a hill and met two boys on bicycles. ... swerving to miss them, he crashed, fractured his skull, and died. lawrence was, winston churchill assured a grieving britain, 'one of the greatest beings alive in our time.'"
from "lawrence of arabia," january 1999, national geographic magazine
小白屋，多赛特，英国，1996
46岁的劳伦斯从皇家空军退役，搬进了（英国）多赛特的一间小屋，但是他在军队感受过的平稳生活却再也没有了。几个月后，劳伦斯骑着摩托车登上一座小山时，遇到了两个骑自行车的男孩……他试图急转弯避免（撞到他们），却摔倒在地上，颅骨骨折而死。劳伦斯被温斯顿丘吉尔评价为一位让整个英国为之痛心的人，“是身处我们这个时代的最伟大的人之一。