According to the preface, he didnt take notes and then he lost the first two he got burned up and still wrote it. If you read the book it has enormous detail about the sand a dunes and what happened on the day of the movement. I dont know how he could possibly remember all of it. Its some of the most elegant writing ive ever read, so i read at night to go to sleep and i read a little bit of the seven pillars of wisdom and after zonkars of wisdom and after you have enough airplane time to read . I dont read much on the plane. I go back and forth to tennessee. Nd thats about an hour. So i usually read a newspaper or catch up on work or sleep. I read when im by myself and at night before bed or sometimes early in the morning. Or in the summer i go fishing for a couple of weeks and ive take some books to read. Mrs. Alexander is also a reader. Big time. She loves to read. We went to a discussion recently and she was talking about her list of the best which she had done for parade magazine a