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whose youth is not mortal yet project/stunt-story topic/heartbreak

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 everything is missing from his body, feels he contains …

—p.157 The English Patient Katharine (147) by Michael Ondaatje
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sunlight pours into his Cairo room topic/heartbreak

The minute she turns away from him in the lobby of Groppi’s bar after he greets her, he is insane. He knows the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.

Sunlight pours into his Cairo …

—p.156 Katharine (147) by Michael Ondaatje
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that night I fell in love with a voice topic/love

The desert fire was between us. The Cliftons, Madox, Bell and myself. If a man leaned back a few inches he would disappear into darkness. Katharine Clifton began to recite something, and my head was no longer in the halo of the camp’s twig fire.

There was classical blood in her face. Her parents…

—p.143 South Cairo 1930–1938 (131) by Michael Ondaatje
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talkers seduce project/stunt-story

‘Older than Hana. Could you fall in love with her if she wasn’t smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn’t it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now. She can be obsessed by the Englishman because he knows more. We’re in a h…

—p.120 Sometime a Fire (67) by Michael Ondaatje
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talkers seduce project/stunt-story

‘Older than Hana. Could you fall in love with her if she wasn’t smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn’t it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now. She can be obsessed by the Englishman because he knows more. We’re in a h…

—p.120 Sometime a Fire (67) by Michael Ondaatje