When Storm asks whether a man from Lockridge's past could:
"'...really feel what the basic difference is that divides East and West in your time?'" (p. 34)
- Lockridge replies:
"'I reckon not... In fact quite a few of our own don't seem to see it.'" (ibid.)
What that means is that Lockridge has his opinion and other people have theirs but Lockridge's way of expressing this is to claim that he understands the East-West division whereas the others do not! It would probably be difficult to get him to accept that there are more than two perspectives on the issue.
In 1916, Irish Republicans proclaimed, "We serve neither King nor Kaiser but Ireland!" I cite that as a (perhaps) less controversial way to make a point. When many people have been persuaded that there are two and only two sides, it is possible to claim allegiance to a third. Again, "England's disadvantage is Ireland's advantage..."
Lockridge is taken far away from the Cold War, first into the Wardens-Rangers conflict of the future, then into the Bronze Age.
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