How amazing that every reader seems to look from a particular perspective.
Jansy
Dear Jansy,
There is definitely a problem here worth solving or resolving. In his lecture on Jekyll & Hyde, VN provides his students and readers with a diagram of Dr Jekyll's house, without which I would have only the vaguest idea of the geometry of the place. I have taken VN's interpretation on faith, since the original is complex on the subject and I am not good at visualizing.*
It would be lovely if some one who is good at visualizing would try to map out New Wye, the Shade house in that landscape and the house itself. Then a similar map of the Zemblan palace would be helpful ... wishful thinking?
Carolyn
* I am not entirely sure that my faith is warranted since I am beginning to doubt VN's identification of G. Samsa as a beetle of any sort (I think he may have been a large louse, or a flea - - just started thinking about this so please don't all rush at me at once).