【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 73
that large plateau resting in the Libyan Desert, the size of Switzerland, as Madox liked to saywas our heart, It rose out of the desert four hundred miles west of the Nile. For the early Egyptians there was supposedly no water west of the oasis towns
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 74
We were a small clutch of a nation between the wars, mapping and re-exploring. We gathered at Dakhla and Kufra as if they were bars or cafes. An oasis society, We knew each others intimacies, each others skills and weaknesses. We forgave Bagnold ever
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 75
There seemed to be a small lump, a dog possibly, under the covers. I pulled back the djellaba and there was a small Arab girl tied up, sleeping there. By 1932, Bagnold was finished and Madox and the rest of us were everywhere. Looking for Zerzura. 19
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 76
In 1936 a young man named Geoffrey Clifton had met a friend at Oxford who mentioned what we were doing. He contacted me, got married the next day, and two weeks later flew with his wife to Cairo. The couple entered our worldthe four of us, Prince Kem
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 77
He was one for ceremonies. I dont think he loved the desert, but he had an affection for it that grew out of awe at our stark order, into which he wanted to fit himselflike a joyous undergraduate who respects silent behaviour in a library. We had not
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 78
I left them with the others and went to join a man in Kufra and spent many days with him, trying out theories I had kept secret from the rest of the expedition. I returned to the base camp at El Jof three nights later. The desert fire was between us.
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 79
Millions of spiritual Creatures walk the Earth Unseen, both when we -wake, and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night: how often from the steep Of echoing Hill or Thicket have we heard Celestial voices to t
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 80
For him all relationships fell into patterns. You fell into propinquity or distance. Just as, for him, the histories in Herodotus clarified all societies. He assumed he was experienced in the ways of the world he had essentially left years earlier, s
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 81
He would pack before the evening began, which would allow him to just climb into the truck the next morning, hung over. So he drove her into town, the air humid, the traffic bad and slow because of the hour. Its so hot. (she said). I need a beer. Do
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 82
He was like his old self. He hardly looked at her on the drive, even when they were stalled for more than five minutes in one spot. At the hotel he was excessively polite. When he behaved this way she liked him even less; they all had to pretend this
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 83
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
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 84
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.
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 85
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
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 86
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
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 87
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
