We can see that different languages structure the world in different ways, they carve up the various continua and different types of relations in the world.
The British novelist has excelled at writing incisive, corrosive political satires, such as " What a Carve Up! " , the novel of 1994 which made his name.
Some of this was in evidence in the Middle East, where Britain and France between them had carved up the former Ottoman Empire into mandates or occupied territories.