Rather, he chronicles their marriage and brief courtship factually, and free of emotion. He states that he fell in love with her, and we are presented with no further evidence to corroborate that case. However—when he was still married to Nancy—Graves wrote the following passage about his first meeting of T.E. Lawrence as an adult, proving that Dick was not merely a youthful experimentation. “The formality of evening dress concentrates attention on eyes, and Lawrence’s eyes immediately held me. They were startlingly blue, even by artificial light, and never met the eyes of the person he addressed, but flickered up and down as though making an inventory of clothes and limbs.” (242) The flirtatious, almost whispery flavor of “Lawrence’s eyes immediately held me” is absolutely unique throughout his entire memoir. Graves never gives notice to any other pair of eyes, and for him to admit that eyes had a hold over him is definitely unusual. (He even went on to write an entire book about Lawrence.) If he was this passionate about Nancy, death might actually have been the one thing to “do them
Rather, he chronicles their marriage and brief courtship factually, and free of emotion. He states that he fell in love with her, and we are presented with no further evidence to corroborate that case. However—when he was still married to Nancy—Graves wrote the following passage about his first meeting of T.E. Lawrence as an adult, proving that Dick was not merely a youthful experimentation. “The formality of evening dress concentrates attention on eyes, and Lawrence’s eyes immediately held me. They were startlingly blue, even by artificial light, and never met the eyes of the person he addressed, but flickered up and down as though making an inventory of clothes and limbs.” (242) The flirtatious, almost whispery flavor of “Lawrence’s eyes immediately held me” is absolutely unique throughout his entire memoir. Graves never gives notice to any other pair of eyes, and for him to admit that eyes had a hold over him is definitely unusual. (He even went on to write an entire book about Lawrence.) If he was this passionate about Nancy, death might actually have been the one thing to “do them