Balcony
What sort of person chooses to live in a house on a hill?
A sad person who feels alienated and separate from society? Someone who feels guilty and hides themselves away?
Is it too pat, too obvious to say it is an arrogant person, someone who wants to look down on the world?
What about someone frightened, perhaps irrationally frightened? Or someone whose life is fraught with danger and who needs to build themselves some kind of fortress? As the medieval historians say - une place forte ...
One of the characters in my novel Labyrinth lived in this house, with this balcony, overlooking the river and the medieval cité. It was his place forte ...
Then, in my text, it changed and became more modern, concrete and glass ...
