The cheerfully painted mural of the London skyline that decorates one wall of the visiting room (a touristy memory for detainees to carry with them before they are removed to other countries perhaps) is very different from the long, stark corridors with cold polished floors, metal grilles and cells furnished with little more than bunk beds, barely screened toilets and plastic chairs.
Perhaps worlds very different from our own.
As the show drew to a close, only that fiery cloud, the luminous sheen of the boat-crowded water and the sturdy Brooklyn tower of the bridge were still visibleNa view perhaps not so very different from the vista of a century before".
The lack of any type of triage at the district hospital may perhaps not be very different from the situation in an out-patients department at a European hospital, but the fact that malaria can kill a child within 24 hours of the onset of symptoms makes it crucial to perform triage among the many patients in the crowded patients' department and to act promptly if a severely ill child is identified.
Otto, a pensive scientist with a poetry-reading wife, seems only mildly put out when one of his experiments backfires, leaving him with four metal limbs that appear to have plans, and perhaps even voting intentions, very different from his own.
Some of them, in fact, have been willing to defend the thesis that the world is very different from, perhaps radically different from, the way people thought it was before they began to reason philosophically.
Perhaps it is because baseball is so very different from anything I grew up with.
Perhaps the scenes in Angkor were not very different from those seen in recent years in New Orleans or Fukushima.
But perhaps the principles behind them are not so very different from those found in other cultures.
Today, Syrians, Iraqis, Afghani, Sudanese and perhaps soon the Egyptians are all discovering a fate not very different from that of the 1948 and 1967 displaced Palestinians.
