The English Patient

，I The Villa.in memory of skip and mary dickinson for quintin and griffin and for louise dennys, with thanks ‘most of you, i am sure, remember the tragic circumstances of the death of geoffrey clifton at gilf kebir, followed later by the disappearance of his wife, katharine clifton, which took place during the 1939 desert expedition in search of zerzura.“i cannot begin this meeting tonight without referring very sympathetically to those tragic occurrences.“the lecture this evening ...” from the minutes of the geographical society meeting of november 194-, londonithe villashe stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance. she has sensed a shift in the weather.there is another gust of wind, a buckle of noise in the air, and the tall cypresses sway. she