The English Patient - 1 - The Man Who Fell From the Sky

A reading of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. A truly nectarous piece of literature, that arouses all five senses, and will perhaps even bring forth a sixth. More readings to follow. Background art by Sky Colon. To see more of her enamoring art, follow and support her on ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/lilotaku The background is a depiction of the following passage from the story: “Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of travel! She would pretend disgust, but the dog's paw was a wonder: the smell of it never suggested dirt. It's a cathedral! her father had said, so-and-so's garden, that field of grasses, a walk through cyclamen--a concentration of hints of all the paths the animal had taken during the day.”