The picture is, in fact, very simple;
| WE HAD | WE NEED |
| EPICS | NOVELS |
| REPRESENTATION | EXPRESSION |
| MONUMENTS | HOMES |
| HISTORIES | STORIES |
| NATIONS | PERSONS |
| GROUPS AND TEAMS | INDIVIDUALS |
| LARGE AND EXPENSIVE | SMALL AND CHEAP |
Isn't that a finely sane list?
Indeed, everything about the place struck me as deeply sane, as well as deeply thought-provoking. Wandering around the house I felt genuinely in touch with another way of life even as I recognised features of my own history in there.
In the sort of guest book, a copy of the novel The Museum of Innocence in English translation I wrote: 'Magically real; really magical'. But nothing I can say can do justice to the genuine magic of the place.
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