Status Updates From The English Patient

Oh, no. Not that ending. Got to watch the film version now.

"Many books open with an author's assurance of order. One slipped into their waters with a silent paddle.... But [other] novels commenced with hesitation or chaos. Readers were never fully in balance. A door a lock a weir opened and they rushed through, one hand holding a gunnel, the other a hat."

"Hana sees him wash at a basin of collected rainwater, placed formally on top of a sundial. The garden tap, used in previous times for the seedbeds, is now dry. She sees his shirtless brown body as tosses water over himself like a bird using its wing."