Fragments

"Their door too is always open, it being a convention in these houses that nothing is seen or heard that is not meant to be. The convention soon becomes a habit...A training in perception has as much to do with what is ignored and passed over as with what it observed. You see what you are meant to see. You hear when you are called." David Malouf, '12 Edmondstone Street', Penguin Books 1986 p22.