'Birds without wings' by louis de bernieres extract
'His brief time with Tamara had provided him with inklings of what might be between a man and a woman, and his heart, his stomach, his loins and his throat yearned for something that he could not articulate even to himself. He needed someone to meld with. He knew himself to be something like a garden where the only flowers were those of potatoes, ragweed and neglected onions, but a true gardener would have been able to drape the trellises with vines, and coax up tulips from the earth. It would be too simple to say that Rusteem Bey was looking for romantic love, beacause in reality he was looking for the missing part of himself, and these are not often the same quest, even though we sometimes think they are.'
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