【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 88（在线收听） |
She sits on the bed hugging nakedness. He slides his open palm along the sweat of her shoulder. This is my shoulder, he thinks, not her husband’s, this is my shoulder. （As lovers they have offered parts of their bodies to each other, like this. In this room on the periphery of the river. In the few hours they have, the room has darkened to this pitch of light. Just river and desert light. Only when there is the rare shock of rain do they go towards the window and put their arms out, stretching, to bathe as much as they can of themselves in it. Shouts towards the brief downpour fill the streets. ） “We will never love each other again. We can never see each other again.”
“I know,” he says.
The night of her insistence on parting.
She sits, enclosed within herself, in the armour of her terrible conscience. He is unable to reach through it. （Only his body is close to her. ）“Never again. Whatever happens.”
“Yes.”
“I think he will go mad. Do you understand?”
He says nothing, abandoning the attempt to pull her within him. An hour later they walk into a dry night. They can hear the gramophone songs in the distance from the Music for All cinema, its windows open for the heat. They will have to part before that closes up and people she might know emerge from there. |
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