Little of everything

«'You know', I said, getting worked up now, 'one of the reasons why I feel so disjointed is that there's a little of everything in me. I can put myself in any period and feel at home in it. When I read about the Renaissance I feel like a man of the Renaissance; when I read about one of the Chinese dynasties I feel exactly like a Chinese of that epoch. Whatever the race, the period, the people, Egyptian, Aztec, Hindu or Chaldea, I'm thoroughly in it, and it's always a rich, tapestried world whose wonders are inexhaustible.»

Nexus, Henry Miller