However, they then go on to argue that political discourse inevitably violates this injunction anyway, by eliding, smoothing over, or collapsing the logical gap separating political prescription from speculative constation.

After retrenching itself in scholarship and literary imagination, Orientalism has moved on to conquer film, television and CD-ROMs. Nowadays, the subject of Orientalism is not limited to what is conventionally seen as the 'Orient' but also includes Europe, the home of its origins, itself.

[S]uddenly, a sea change came over his features, […]

The ship left a wake astern of her.