It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

Snap. Lady with dog. Lady on sofa half-naked. Snap. Naked lady. Lady next to dresser. Lady at window. Snap. Lady on balcony sunlight. (On New Orleans photographer E. J. Bellocq)

Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart.

...the heart is an organ of fire.