“The hell of being among strangers was that nobody formed any expectation of how you would behave; therefore you did not know how to behave. You had no notion of what your appropriate conduct would be. You did not know whether you were good, bad or indifferent, not until somebody began to react in a way that told you.”
P.H Newby (1918–1997) in “Something To Answer For” on living in the colonies.
Big ups to Tiger for the reference.
