The English Patient: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje

Author:Michael Ondaatje
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Canada, War stories, Italy, Movie, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction, Literary, War & Military, General, War, Europe, Reading Group Guide, Tv Tie-Ins, Historical fiction, History, Historical - General, Feature films, 1939-1945, Historical, Military, World War, Fiction - Historical, Films for the hearing impaired, Italy - Fiction, World War II, American literature, Modern fiction, General & Literary Fiction, 1939-1945 - Italy - Fiction
ISBN: 9780679745204
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 1993-12-14T09:00:00+00:00

He has been disassembled by her.

And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?

When she is within the wall of her class and he is beside her in larger groups he tells jokes he doesn’t laugh at himself. Uncharacteristically manic, he attacks the history of explora­tion. When he is unhappy he does this. Only Madox recog­nizes the habit. But she will not even catch his eye. She smiles to everyone, to the objects in the room, praises a flower ar­rangement, worthless impersonal things. She misinterprets his behaviour, assuming this is what he wants, and doubles the size of the wall to protect herself.

But now he cannot bear this wall in her. You built your walls too, she tells him, so I have my wall. She says it glitter­ing in a beauty he cannot stand. She with her beautiful clothes, with her pale face that laughs at everyone who smiles at her, with the uncertain grin for his angry jokes. He contin­ues his appalling statements about this and that in some ex­pedition they are all familiar with.

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