The English Patient (1996)
Katharine Clifton:
My darling. I'm waiting for you. How long is the day in the dark? Or a
week? The fire is gone, and I'm horribly cold. I really should drag
myself outside but then there'd be the sun. I'm afraid I waste the light
on the paintings, not writing these words. We die. We die rich with
lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we've entered and
swum up like rivers. Fears we've hidden in - like this wretched cave. I
want all this marked on my body. Where the real countries are. Not
boundaries drawn on maps with the names of powerful men. I know you'll
come carry me out to the Palace of Winds. That's what I've wanted: to
walk in such a place with you. With friends, on an earth without maps.
The lamp has gone out and I'm writing in the darkness.
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