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- Jul 2, 2020
- 4 min
Text/Film
As I mentioned several posts back, I saw the film version of “The English Patient” before reading the book, an interesting phenomenon. It...
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- Jun 4, 2020
- 3 min
Tense Mood
Today, I want to write about how verb tenses are used in “The English Patient” to—(WTF? Sounds like a snooze-fest, pal. Maybe catch you...
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- May 28, 2020
- 3 min
Tell Me A Story
Last week, I identified two modes of narration in “The English Patient,” the (nearly) invisible narrator who tells the story of the four...
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- May 21, 2020
- 4 min
The English Patient
This week, a new novel, Michael Ondaatje’s “The English Patient.” In 1995 I was browsing in a bookstore in downtown Chicago and saw “The...