isn't Lawrence's use of the "dark-green napkin" a most appropriate metaphor? Of course it's visual and easy to imagine the squarish, rumpled cloth dropped at the foot of the mountains. But napkins are also a product of civilization. They are for wiping the hands and mouth after a meal. Napkins mean food and lodging to a weary traveler. Lawrence looks over the barren wilderness of Mexico and then spots the patches of green dotted with white buildings. Aha! There lies civilization; there be food.
It is really the napkin analogy that I find most interesting about this passage. And I'd suppose the village (which the napkin represents) is also what Lawrence found most interesting
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