Politically I don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country.
Michael OndaatjeHe has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?
Michael OndaatjeFathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart.
Michael OndaatjeSo the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms, missing incidents as if locusts had consumed a section of tapestry, as if plaster loosened by the bombing had fallen away from a mural at night.
Michael Ondaatje