 We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked...  The English Patient: Man Booker Prize Winner - Page 261by Michael Ondaatje - 2011 - 320 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Hena Maes-Jelinek, Gordon Collier, Geoffrey V. Davis - Commonwealth literature (English) - 1996 - 574 pages
...invention. He knew during these times how the mirage worked, the fata morgana, for he was withm it. (246I We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes,...wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, lears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead. I... | |
 | Kathy Galloway - Homosexuality - 1997 - 132 pages
...Maybe that means I am no longer a Christian. But I believe it is where following Jesus has taken me. We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes,...have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden as if in caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography... | |
 | John Sturrock - Literature, Modern - 1997 - 516 pages
...ingestion of the gods by the novel's female narrator. And the dying patient's elegiac summation, that 'we die containing a richness of lovers and tribes,...tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into', is very reminiscent of Leonard Cohen, on whom Ondaatje wrote a critical study back in 1970, In the... | |
 | William Pinar - Education - 1998 - 430 pages
...unitary subject, are the very "objects" that we seek to unskin in our efforts to teach. Marked Bodies We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes,...as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed up as if in caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead.... We are communal histories,... | |
 | Nicholas B. Dirks - Social Science - 1998 - 328 pages
...matter of time, a romantic who could not accept the inevitable appropriation of his knowledge and life: We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes,...bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead. I believe... | |
 | Liselotte Glage - Emigration and immigration in literature - 2000 - 244 pages
...body, in their abundance of unreadable marks, reveal his hybrid identity: We die containing a richoess of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies...caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when 1 am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a... | |
 | Martin Schoenhals, Joseph E. Behar - Social Science - 2001 - 294 pages
...non-racist society, in which race and gender are treated playfully. HYBRID STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes,...fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all of this to be marked on my body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography — to be marked by nature,... | |
 | Annie O'Shaughnessy - 2008 - 98 pages
...With your sadness Start my tears Love, Could life be otherwise With you and me? Tsu Yeh, AD 265-316 a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swiimup as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in... | |
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