Patrick writes: ‘That no intention is the “wrong” purity.’

not sure if he’s referring to the Bergson passage that precedes this little aphorism — it was too long and abstruse for me to read on this hot gray morning.

anyway.

not sure if I like this.

not sure if I agree with this.

Q: is there EVER really NO intention?

Q: is there a “right” purity in opposition to a “wrong” one?

Q: what about this will to purity anyway?

I went to see Lawrence of Arabia Sunday. On being asked, “Why do you like the desert?”, Lawrence replied:

“Because it’s clean.”

[This answer by the way seemed to me to have a misogynistic subtext. The whole film is a grand gay fantasy, replete with gorgeous servant boys. Is the fecund non-desert “dirty” world just too full of women?]

[Except for some distant ululators in one scene and a pinup of a dancer in another, there are no women in “Lawrence of Arabia.”]