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You've tied yourself to a corpse for some reason. He is a saint. I think. A despairing saint. Are there such things? Our desire is to protect them. He doesn't even care! Caravaggio said. I can love him. A twenty-year-old who throws herself out of the

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The Englishman was asleep, breathing through his mouth as he always did, awake or asleep. Suddenly Hana was claustrophobic, untired. She strode down the hall and leapt down the stairs. She pushed at the stiff swollen door and came into the library an

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Caravaggio came into the kitchen to find Hana sitting hunched over the table. He could not see her face or her arms tucked in under her body, only the naked back, the bare shoulders. She was not still or asleep. With each shudder her head shook over

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Every four days she washes his black body, beginning at the destroyed feet. She wets a washcloth and holding it above his ankles squeezes the water onto him, looking up as he murmurs, seeing his smile. Above the shins the burns are worst. Beyond purp

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At night he is never tired enough to sleep. She reads to him from whatever book she is able to find in the library downstairs. The candle flickers over the page and over the young nurses talking face, barely revealing at this hour the trees and vista

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Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at portrait level in the far wall, caused by mortar-shell attack on the villa two months earlier. The rest of th

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In Near Ruins THE MAN WITH BANDAGED HANDS named Caravaggio had been in the military hospital in Rome for more than four months when by accident he heard about the burned patient and the nurse, heard her name. He turned from the doorway and walked bac

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He found it difficult to fall asleep on the train, shaking from side to side. He noticed that whenever the train passed a cemetery the travellers around him crossed themselves. Shes in rough shape herself. Gelato for tonsils, he remembered. Accompany

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