Authors my age whether born there or regarding Viet Nam from abroad share a common theme, that life over there is full of astonishing bullshit.
Among my contemporaries Philip Taylor has gone to great lengths to participate in outrageous nonsense, to observe what it is all about.
What anthropologists do. Not to be missed. Well, maybe you will take my word for it.
Anthropologists, one literary critic has observed, are the people who lead fascinating lives and write boring books about them. I disagree. I rather can hardly open a literary memoir, novel or travelogue from the United States,
the depth of horseshit about allegedly normal American lives and values I don't share too deep for me to shovel. By contrast I could read Philip on pilgrimage all day long.
Here is the first of many posts to come about doing that very thing. Read me writing about Philip writing about his friends on the road to the Lady and you have fulfilled our purpose here.
Thank you. Should you further take part in our pilgrimage through Viet Nam letters at $50 or $250 annually we will appreciate it.
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Authors my age whether born there or regarding Viet Nam from abroad share a common theme, that life over there is full of astonishing bullshit.
Among my contemporaries Philip Taylor has gone to great lengths to participate in outrageous nonsense, to observe what it is all about.
What anthropologists do. Not to be missed. Well, maybe you will take my word for it.
Anthropologists, one literary critic has observed, are the people who lead fascinating lives and write boring books about them. I disagree. I rather can hardly open a literary memoir, novel or travelogue from the United States,
the depth of horseshit about allegedly normal American lives and values I don't share too deep for me to shovel. By contrast I could read Philip on pilgrimage all day long.
Here is the first of many posts to come about doing that very thing. Read me writing about Philip writing about his friends on the road to the Lady and you have fulfilled our purpose here.
Thank you. Should you further take part in our pilgrimage through Viet Nam letters at $50 or $250 annually we will appreciate it.