{"id":16527,"date":"2011-06-03T14:21:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T18:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=16527"},"modified":"2013-03-11T16:09:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T20:09:58","slug":"staff-picks-lawrence-of-tell-halaf-raging-nymphos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/staff-picks-lawrence-of-tell-halaf-raging-nymphos\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: Lawrence of Tell Halaf, Raging Nymphos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/lawrence.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/lawrence.jpg 574w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/lawrence-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorsetecho.co.uk\/news\/9055595.Unseen_photograph_of_Lawrence_of_Arabia_is_set_for_auction\/\">previously unpublished photograph<\/a> of T. E. Lawrence was made available for sale this week at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mullocksauctions.co.uk\/lot-30471-photographs_\u2013_the_oppenheimrauschenberg_archaeological_expedition_1912_three.html\">an auction house in Shropshire<\/a>. The image, taken in 1912, shows a youthful Lawrence (in a casual coat and an oversize collar) at an archaeological dig in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tell_Halaf\">Tell Halaf<\/a>. I took news of the photo as an excuse to thumb through Lawrence&#8217;s <em>Seven Pillars of Wisdom<\/em>\u2014an all-time favorite of mine\u2014where I was greeted by one of my favorite passages in all of English literature: \u201cAll men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.\u201d \u2014<strong>Stephen Andrew Hiltner <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was sick in bed for the long weekend and spent my time veering rather oddly between the new edition of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Diana-Vreeland-Illustrated-Eleanor-Dwight\/dp\/0062032089\">Diana Vreeland: An Illustrated Biography<\/a><\/em> by Eleanor Dwight (basically the most glorious fashion porn in existence) and M. Owen Lee\u2019s fascinating <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wagner-Terrible-Man-His-Truthful\/dp\/0802082912\">Wagner: The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art<\/a><\/em>. I like to think that Vreeland, if not Wagner, would have appreciated the combo. (And incidentally, if you haven&#8217;t seen the very bizarre <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0059630\/\">A Rage to Live<\/a><\/em>\u2014a 1965 vehicle about a nympho Suzanne Pleshette\u2014it\u2019s worth adding to your Netflix queue for your next sick day.) \u2014<strong>Sadie Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kelefa Sanneh on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2011\/05\/23\/110523fa_fact_sanneh\">Earl Sweatshirt<\/a>. Alec Wilkinson on the dearly departed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/08\/09\/100809fa_fact_wilkinson\">Gil Scott Heron<\/a>. \u2014<strong>Thessaly La Force<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a little surprised by my own selection, as it\u2019s not my usual fare, but when a copy of Peter Sloterdijk\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?ttype=2&#038;tid=12351\">Neither Sun Nor Death<\/a><\/em> appeared on my desk, I cracked it open and was hooked. He\u2019s an appealing and exciting thinker, not least for his \u201cleap out of old-European melancholy and the German maso-theory cartel.\u201d \u2014<strong>Nicole Rudick <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s latest movie, <em>Film Socialisme<\/em>, opens in New York. I first saw the film last fall, and was mesmerized by its polylinguistic structure and \u201cNavajo English\u201d subtitles. 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