【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 38

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The tales Hana had read to the English patient, travelling with the old wanderer in Kim or with Fabrizio in The Charterhouse of Parma, had intoxicated¹ them in a swirl² of armies and horses and wagons—those running away from or running towards a 

war.When she begins a book she enters through stilted³ doorways⁴ into large courtyards. Parma and Paris and India spread their carpets. “Read Kipling slowly, dear girl, you must read him slowly. Think about the speed of his pen. That was the English patient’s first lesson about reading. He did not interrupt again. If he happened to fall asleep she would continue, never looking up until she herself was fatigued⁵. If he had missed the last half-hour of plot, just one room would be dark in a story he probably already knew. 

The tribe that had saved the burned pilot brought him into the British base at Siwa in 1944. He was moved in the midnight ambulance train from the Western Desert to Tunis, then shipped to Italy. At that time of the war there were hundreds of soldiers lost from themselves, more innocent than devious⁶. Those who claimed to be uncertain of their nationalities were housed in compounds in Tirrenia, where the sea hospital was. The burned pilot was one more enigma⁷.

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