 on a kind of timeline of history so that the East is always meant to be like in the past or timeless and the West is supposed to be dynamic and kind of, you know, where history is headed. So that thought was, you know, I had already learned in graduate school, but I felt there was still something deeper and I finally, it sort of came together for me in 2018 after I was thinking more about the main character in my previous book, this 18th century