![]() ![]() ![]() And those piercing blue eyes! My date was probably a very nice boy, but I couldn’t tell you a single thing about him. But what I really remember is Peter’s electric presence on the screen. I saw the movie on a high-school date in downtown Minneapolis. I had a vague memory of him from the 1962 movie starring Peter O’Toole. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia. My theory is that wandering around the home of a writer is one of the few ways to see how ordinary people lived back in the day.Ĭlouds Hill in the rural reaches of Dorset was once the home of a very non-ordinary man, T. ![]() But a few became famous enough that their admirers somehow preserved their homes. Why? Because writers hardly ever made much money (most of them still don’t, truth be told) and lived quite ordinary lives. Given the chance, I always make a beeline for the home-turned-museum of any writer, whether I like the writer or not. National Trust guidebook, detail of Augustus John’s portrait of Lawrence, 1919, now in the Tate Britain museum. ![]()
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