When the European looks down on this land, divided into minute lots and cultivated to the last acre, he experiences an initial feeling of familiarity… - Claude Lévi-Strauss

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When the European looks down on this land, divided into minute lots and cultivated to the last acre, he experiences an initial feeling of familiarity. But the way the colours shade into each other, the irregular outlines of the fields and the rice-swamps which are constantly rearranged in different patterns, the blurred edges which look as if they had been roughly stitched together, all this is part of the same tapestry, but — compared to the clearly defined forms and colours of a European landscape — it is like a tapestry with the wrong side showing.