In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.
That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka goes and gets educated abroad...
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me....
Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001 and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.
