?"The truth was secret, God first, the word, the word God, out of all things and beyond, spaceless and timeless, then the void, the silent emptiness, bvaster/b than any mortal mind could conceive, abstract and precise and real and lost, b....../b but also the colonial plantations or bestates/b of Trinidad, to which my impoverished Indian ancestors had been transported in the last century ? bestates/b of which this Wiltshire bestate/b, where I now lived, had been the apotheosis. ...
