At first we were confused. The East thought that we were West while the West considered us to be the East.

Epistle to Irinej, quoted in Milica Bakić-Hayden and Robert M. Hayden, "Orientalist Variations on the Theme 'Balkans': Symbolic Geography in Recent Yugoslav Cultural Politics", Slavic Review: American Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East-European Studies, vol. 5, no. 1 (Spring 1992) pp. 1-15, and cited in Vesna Goldsworthy, Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination (Yale UP, 1998) ch. 1, p. 8