"(T.E. Lawrence) To Lionel Curtis: 'When my mood gets too hot I haul out my motorbike and hurl it at top speed over these unfit roads hour after hour... I wish you were an alienist and could tell me how or when this ferment will end.'"


Lawrence was riding the 1000cc Brough back to his cottage in England
on May 13, 1935 when he apparently highsided the bike after trying to
avoid two boys on bicycles. He died in a nearby hospital six days
later from injuries suffered in the crash.

I remember reading in his book his description of being subjected to homosexual rape. And discovering he didn't really hate it. Perhaps that was what he was running away
from.