This, then, is a book about belonging rather than a conventional travelogue.
"It is sort of comforting, and I have a sense of belonging rather than a sense of squatting, which is what I felt I was doing".
And how refreshing it is to see such stomach-churning atrocity in the theatre, where it rightly belongs, rather than on depressing newsreels from around the world.
Should the Premier League not be comprised of the teams that have showed they belong, rather than just those who are a bit better than the very worst?
Bosboom-Toussaint's best known book, Majoor Frans (1874; "Major Francis"), was not historical, belonging rather to an era of liberal politics and female emancipationists.
South Africans were waving flags, and supporting their team out of a sense of joy and belonging, rather than the deficit-driven pride that has fuelled both Afrikaner and African nationalism for so long.
As the IJ's Nick Sibilla notes, the bill puts the burden of proof on the government, where it belongs, rather than on citizens to prove a negative (ie, prove the lack of criminal connections).
When complete, the 900km (560-mile) Seventh Ring Road will surround Beijing at such a distance that most of it will run through the neighbouring province of Hebei, to which Langfang belongs, rather than the capital itself.
His Barbican performance of the Second Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra followed on from a tour of eastern Europe with the same work, and he offered a volatile, upfront interpretation, very much anchoring it in the European post-Romantic tradition – which is, of course, where it ultimately belongs – rather than adopting the more lofty approach favoured by some conductors closer to home.
