He is at the end of his journey and yet he feels lost. Within this arrival some terrifying departure lies concealed. And suddenly, with peculiar speed, the lamp moves and everything in the room seems to rearrange itself.
T S Eliot leaps to mind immediately - ‘the end of all our exploring …’ : and ‘the lamp moves and everything in the room seems to rearrange itself’ speaks already of both the literal and the metaphorical - move the light source, change the perspective, and everything is, indeed, rearranged.
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