East or West?

Photographed by Mac

«…”We live” writes Pursewarden somewhere, “lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time – not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed”. Something of this order…»

Balthazar (Second volume of The Alexandria Quartet), Lawrence Durrell, Penguin Books