sherishine
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He watches the English patient, earphones on, the eyes focused inwards, listening. The rifle sight moves down the thin nose to the Adam’s apple, above the collarbone. Kip stops breathing. Braced at exact right angles to the Enfield rifle. No waver.
Then the Englishman’s eyes look back at him.
Sapper.
Caravaggio enters the room and reaches for him, andKip wheels the butt of the rifle into his ribs. A swat from the paw of an animal. And then, as if part of the same movement, he is back in the braced right-angle position of those in firing squads, drilled into him in various barracks in India and England. The burned neck in his sights.
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The above is from the English Patient.
Here I have three questions:
:?oes the colored paragraph mean that, Kip uses the butt of the rifle to hit Caravaggio, and the movement is just like a swat from the paw of an animal?
:?:And then, he comes back to the right-angle position, which just like one of firing squads?
:?: What's the Subject of the half sentence"drilled into him in various barracks in India and England", what is its actual meaning ?
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Thank you for your help :up:
Then the Englishman’s eyes look back at him.
Sapper.
Caravaggio enters the room and reaches for him, andKip wheels the butt of the rifle into his ribs. A swat from the paw of an animal. And then, as if part of the same movement, he is back in the braced right-angle position of those in firing squads, drilled into him in various barracks in India and England. The burned neck in his sights.
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The above is from the English Patient.
Here I have three questions:
:?oes the colored paragraph mean that, Kip uses the butt of the rifle to hit Caravaggio, and the movement is just like a swat from the paw of an animal?
:?:And then, he comes back to the right-angle position, which just like one of firing squads?
:?: What's the Subject of the half sentence"drilled into him in various barracks in India and England", what is its actual meaning ?
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Thank you for your help :up: