A letterboxed frame, seen through a white-framed  fenêtre  in a mud  mur , entered through a boxed picket fence gateway, which has an X and two flags above it. Island of the Orthodox, fractal subset of This Island Earth, which, though an island, has lots of estuaries and peninsulas around which are clustered lots and lots of little islands like this one, which have fully functioning micro-economies, and often offer cultural sanctuary for the forgotten or forbidden or the out of place, or simply any sincere minority that manages to get there first.     En Moins d'une heure, j'étais au seuil d'une maison de terre battue, inachevée.