Place is a twist you can't iron out of the fabric of things

Place has a strange loop form because place deeply involves time. Place doesn't stay still, but bends and twists: place is a twist you can't iron out of the fabric of things. When you are near your destination you can sometimes feel quite disoriented. You may enhance the magnification on Google Maps to make sure you are really there. The local is far from the totally known or knowable. It is familiar, which also mean that it is uncanny (German heimisch, "familiar" and "unfamiliar", "intimate" and "monstrous" at the same time).

Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology (Columbia University Press, 2016) p. 11