Michael Ondaatje

further into whatever book she was reading

She was not concerned about t

erself. She would not be ordered again or carry out duties for the

ssili I have seen rock engravings from

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of preoccupation.