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“Time and space became the dual torments; the dragging hours, the claustrophobic familiarity of their surroundings. Shackled to the passage of the day, they were flung into an inescapable intimacy with each feature of the place.”
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“The Middle East has changed colour yet again. The Middle East? East of what? And the Middle Ages? Middle of when? That frozen, egocentric vision of history once more. Everything depends on the point of view. And points of view, right now, have never been more fanatical or more ferocious.”

“But in private she might have admitted that sometimes the whole inexorable narrative seemed as though it had you by the nose, as if it led you relentlessly towards the people and the places waiting for you out there, invisible, unthinkable and inevitable.”
-Lucy