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The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
March 23, 2022 - March 26, 2022 (read/fiction/new-favorites/women-and-their-dilemmas)

Ondaatje, M. (1993). The English Patient. Vintage.


Vintage, 1993. 305 pages. Paperback. 9780679745204

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propinquity »
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strange
the state of being close to someone or something;…
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balustrade »
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(noun) a row of balusters topped by a rail / (nou…
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her desire to be a certain kind of person
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She will, he realizes now, always have a serious …
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in the palace of winds
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And all the names of the tribes, the nomads of fa…
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you killed almost everything in me
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Everything I have loved or valued has been taken …
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only desire makes the story errant
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Caravaggio picks up the Herodotus. He turns a pag…
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as if he had breached an intimacy
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Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the…

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The Villa

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2. In Near Ruins

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3. Sometime a Fire

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4. South Cairo 1930–1938

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South Cairo 1930–1938

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5. Katharine

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Katharine

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6. A Buried Plane

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7. In Situ

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In Situ

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9. The Cave of Swimmers

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