The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. – Michael Ondaatje
In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patients mind. – Michael Ondaatje
Thats Anils path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. – Michael Ondaatje
Destroy the roots of the healthiest plants, their heads will droop and die. Many excellent qualities of the mind have their roots, in fact, in the body: their summits, which adorn the spiritual being, the mind, will wither, if we neglect the soil of these valuable plants… – C.G. Salzmann, Gymnastics for Youth: or, A Practical Guide to Healthful and Amus