“Our house is on the outskirts, and right behind it the Forest begins. My mother moved to this house when she was excommunicated from the church, and before, the Ekers always lived in the very center of Samaria, to the left of the temple, if you face east. Samaria is the name of the village in which we live. And our planet is called the same, but not because the first settlers were too lazy to come up with different names, but because, apart from Samaria, there are no villages on the planet...”