Cool

Did you know that in T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1935, the first paragraph of the introduction to Book 1, Chapters VIII to XVI, reads:

I had believed these misfortunes of the Revolt to be due mainly to faulty leadership, or rather to the lack of leadership, Arab and English. So I went down to Arabia to see and consider its great men. The first, the Sherif of Mecca, we knew to be aged. I found Abdulla too clever, Ali too clean, Zeid too cool.