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For some years I lived in the desert. The English patient says, I learned everything I knew there. Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert. He smiles at Hana. One feeds me morphine. One feeds me condensed milk. W...
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Hana can hear the voices in the English patients room and stands in the hall trying to catch what they are saying.( How is it? Wonderful! Now its my turn. Ahh! Splendid, splendid. This is the greatest of inventions. A remarkable find, young man. )Whe...
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There is a spark from a short, and the twigs at her knee catch fire. He pulls her back into the seat beside him. He thrusts his hands up against the cockpit glass and it will not shift. Begins punching the glass, cracking it, finally breaking it, and...
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And three years later, in 1942, I walked with her towards the buried plane, carrying her body as if it was the armour of a knight. In the desert the tools of survival are undergroundtroglodyte caves, water sleeping within a buried plant, weapons, a p...
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How did you hate me? Katharine whispers in the Cave of Swimmers, talking through her pain of injuries. A broken wrist. Shattered ribs. You were terrible to me. Thats when my husband suspected you. I still hate that about youdisappearing into deserts...
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I dressed. My clothes dry and brittle from the heat in the stones. My linked hands made a saddle for her to rest on. As soon as I reached the sand I jostled her around so her body was facing back, over my shoulder.( I was conscious of the airiness of...
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Shed come to love its sternness because of him, wanting to understand his comfort in its solitude.( She was always happier in rain, in bathrooms steaming with liquid air, in sleepy wetness, climbing back in from his window that rainy night in Cairo a...
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He reached the shallow well named Ain Dua. He removed all of his clothes and soaked them in the well, put his head and then his thin body into the blue water. His limbs exhausted from the four nights of walking. He left his clothes spread on the rock...
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Above the well named Ain Dua. Caravaggio thinks he knows who you are, Hana said. The English patient said nothing. He says you are not English. He worked with intelligence out of Cairo and Italy for a while. Till he was captured. My family knew Carav...
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The truck exploded, probably sabotaged. There were spies among the Bedouin,(whose caravans continued to drift like cities, carrying spice, rooms, government advisors wherever they went. At any given moment among the Bedouin in those days of the war,...
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3 CCs BROMPTON COCKTAIL. 3:00 P.M. Caravaggio slips the book out of the mans hands. When you crashed in the desertwhere were you flying from? He asks. I was leaving the Gilf Kebir. I had gone there to collect someone. In late August. Nineteen forty-t...
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She said, I think we should leave him be. It doesnt matter what side he was on, does it? Caravaggio said, Id like to talk with him some more. With more morphine in him. Talking it out. Both of us. Do you understand? To see where it will all go.( Deli...
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He aimed them towards Uweinat and its granite plateau so they could get water, take shelter in the caves. It was a halfway point. In the 1930 he had discovered caves with rock paintings there. But the plateau was crawling with Allies and he couldnt...
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They are in the botanical garden, near the Cathedral of All Saints. She sees one tear and leans forward and licks it, taking it into her mouth.（ As she has taken the blood from his hand when he cut himself cooking for her. Blood. Tear.） He feels...
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She sits on the bed hugging nakedness. He slides his open palm along the sweat of her shoulder. This is my shoulder, he thinks, not her husbands, this is my shoulder. （As lovers they have offered parts of their bodies to each other, like this. In t...
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He sweeps his arm across plates and glasses on a restaurant table so she might look up somewhere else in the city hearing this cause of noise. When he is without her. He, who has never felt alone in the miles of longitude between desert towns. （A m...
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A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle. Half my days 1 cannot bear not to touch you. The rest of the time I feel it doesnt matter if I ever see you again. It isnt the morality, it is how much you can bear. No date, no name attached. Sometim...
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He will go mad. A list of wounds. The various colours of the bruisebright russet leading to brown. The plate she walked across the room with, flinging its contents aside, and broke across his head, the blood rising up into the straw hair. The fork th...
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Each day he would return home and look at the black bruise in the mirror. He became curious, not so much about the bruise, but about the shape of his face. The long eyebrows he had never really noticed before, the beginning of grey in his sandy hair....
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He walked back to the truck. She could feel his sweat now, like blood left by a blade which the gesture of his arm seemed to have imitated. She picks up a cushion and places it onto her lap as a shield against him. If you make love to me I wont lie a...
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