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21 " A place is a storied landscape, somewhere that has human meaning. But another thing we have started to learn, or relearn, is that places aren’t just about people; that they reflect our attempt to grasp and make sense of the non-human; the land and its many inhabitants that are forever around and beyond us. It can be an unnerving exchange, especially when what we hope to see is something purely natural, and what we find instead is our own reflection. Shorelines are waxing and waning with increasing speed, and old kingdoms, like Doggerland, as well as new ones in the once-inaccessible Arctic, are being revealed, demanding that we look at the landscape, and at the map, in new ways; as something in motion, unmoored by tradition. "
― Alastair Bonnett , Beyond the Map
22 " The total disappearance in 1946 of “East Prussia” into East Poland and the Soviet exclave of Kaliningrad was also an act of revenge and ethnic cleansing. "
― Alastair Bonnett , Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
23 " And there is but a step from a she-ass to a woman. "
24 " It seems natural to define the world around what is sought after, but geopolitics can also be considered in terms of what is not wanted. "
25 " To wander through a day care center in Newcastle while clutching a map of the Berlin subway is genuinely disorienting. "