| cultur. | east of the Suez Canal, the Ten Commandments do not apply | к востоку от Суэца 10 Заповедей не действуют (In the narrator's mind, when you are East of Suez the Ten Commandments don't apply, and a man can do manly things. He can have an affair with a woman, using his relative wealth and power to seduce her, and tell himself that he’s doing nothing wrong. But in London, he feels compelled to follow the Ten Commandments, to behave in a respectable way. He cannot treat a Christian housemaid in the same way he treated a Buddhist woman.  quora.com Alexander Oshis) |