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I sense the influence of Proust. I was correct.

“One only knows a spot once one has experienced it in as many directions as possible. You have to have approached a place from all four cardinal points if you want to take it in, and what’s more, you also have to have left it from all these points. Otherwise it will quite unexpectedly cross your path three or four times before you are prepared to discover it. “