And yet I am poor! Why?
April 3, 2016 8:34 PM Subscribe
Is being "a river to one's people", or to anything, an idiom that pre-exists its appearance in the famous monologue in Lawrence of Arabia?
Response by poster: Does Thesiger describe him, or report him as having been described, as a river to his people, or as a river to those to whom he gave his stuff away? Because otherwise that anecdote, while interesting, seems irrelevant.
posted by kenko at 9:40 AM on April 4, 2016
posted by kenko at 9:40 AM on April 4, 2016
You're right, the reference is irrelevant. Thesiger makes no analogies in regard to the individual. I thought that perhaps the scriptwriter might have been prompted to the metaphoric description.
posted by X4ster at 1:21 PM on April 4, 2016
posted by X4ster at 1:21 PM on April 4, 2016
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