FreeTime Posted June 7, 2009 Report Share Posted June 7, 2009 Review of 'Bangkok Days: A Sojourn in the Capital of Pleasure' by Lawrence Osborne: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/06/express/lost-and-found-in-bangkok_2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 << He writes, â??Westerners choose Bangkok as a place to live precisely because they can never understand it, for even the Thai script, that variation of written Sanskrit, is impossible to master. Itâ??s this ignorance which comforts the farang. However conversant in Thai culture, he will never get close to the bottom of it.â? >> << The travelers have accepted their fates as broken men, yet they do so with a kind of stubborn, good-natured resolve. These men are, above all else, lonely. But Osborne suggests that this loneliness is voluntary, brought on by the impulse to disappear completely. â??No one ever truly appreciates how much Robinson Crusoe enjoyed his solitude,â? he writes with a nod to Defoeâ??s lonely island dweller. He is a man alone, the city of millions his island. >> Wow ... the voice of wisdumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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