"It seems cruel," she said, "that after a while nothing matters ... any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: 'Use unknown.'"1

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1 Edith Wharton's Ellen Olenska, peering into a case of Cesnola antiquities and other fragments of a vanished Illium. Maybe just made glum by the setting: the old Metropolitan Museum ... "A queer wilderness of cast-iron and encaustic tiles". But, it reflects a wider significance: her own unhappy marriage and that awkward tryst with Langdon Archer. Again, from The Age of Innocence.

"It seems cruel," she said, "that after a while nothing matters ... any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: 'Use unknown.'"1

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1 Edith Wharton's Ellen Olenska, peering into a case of Cesnola antiquities and other fragments of a vanished Illium. Maybe just made glum by the setting: the old Metropolitan Museum ... "A queer wilderness of cast-iron and encaustic tiles". But, it reflects a wider significance: her own unhappy marriage and that awkward tryst with Langdon Archer. Again, from The Age of Innocence.

Have you been drinking?

LaoPo

I'll have an ounce of whatever that corkscrew's smoking.

I'll have an ounce of whatever that corkscrew's smoking.

You're a bad boy....you know that's illegal in LOS (but not in my small country...we have lots of coffeeshops with a menu.... )

LaoPo

I think corkscrew is trying to say that many things in Thailand seem odd to the Farang but are the things that make up life among the Thai.

We just guess at their meanings because we are as from a different century.

But it really reflects our own unhappiness from trying to live in our time and culture in their place and century.

The answer is to, of course become Thai but that is difficult to do when you are drunk. The spirit is willing but the mind is comatose.

I think in 6 more posts the OP will be home in Bedlam

I think in 6 more posts the OP will be home in Bedlam

Which one?

One of the strangest posts I have ever read

To the OP...please repost using a format that the majority of us can grasp

Life deals you a hand, play it the best you can. If you cant win with whats been given, you've gotta bluff it!

Life deals you a hand, play it the best you can. If you cant win with whats been given, you've gotta bluff it!

Good philosophy!