corkscrew Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 "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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaoPo Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 "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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkkmadness Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I'll have an ounce of whatever that corkscrew's smoking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaoPo Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark45y Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdinasia Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I think in 6 more posts the OP will be home in Bedlam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest endure Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I think in 6 more posts the OP will be home in Bedlam Which one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiPauly Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 One of the strangest posts I have ever read To the OP...please repost using a format that the majority of us can grasp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordsux Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 Life deals you a hand, play it the best you can. If you cant win with whats been given, you've gotta bluff it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suegha Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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