The world was like a plate;paradise was up a mountain, across a sea, perhaps guarded by angels, maybe in China, or Armenia, or Abyssinia, or Mesopotamia.

• 世俗世界像是一个盘子，跨过群山，穿过海洋，或许在中国，或许在亚美尼亚，或许在埃塞俄比亚，或许在美索布达米亚，就是被天使所守卫的天堂。