I think the line after "He looked like you from across the street" is actually "But that's a long way here", which seems a clever way of encapsulating a divided community where a short physical distance hides a wider gulf of some kind. To reflect what earlier posters said, that was definitely the case in both Belfast and Berlin in 1981.
I think the line after "He looked like you from across the street" is actually "But that's a long way here", which seems a clever way of encapsulating a divided community where a short physical distance hides a wider gulf of some kind. To reflect what earlier posters said, that was definitely the case in both Belfast and Berlin in 1981.