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(I hear you - northy-southy=uppy-downy. Precisely. Or precisely enough for a psychogeographer.)

I have stood on the south coast of England and peered across to the coast of Gaul. A tiny sight-line, no more than a hyphen. That's what he implies by "inspicitur". You just look across and, by golly - there it is!

All Europe curls round these islands in a conspiratorial parenthesis. Then as now. The impending political divorce makes me weep.

Tacitus is no less informed about the geography of the world as he "knew" it than Matthew Arnold, whose "Dover Beach" irritates me because there is no appreciable tide in the Aegean, making bollocks of his supposed solidarity with Sophocles.

Perhaps my own shaky solidarity with Tacitus does not stand up to scholarly scrutiny, but I have long enjoyed his company.
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